Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett has assembled a 35-person task force of builders, bankers and public officials to strategize on ways to quickly expand affordable housing in the county.

That group will have until October to write up a detailed plan for leveraging private dollars to fix what Leggett has called one of his main priorities.

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