Panelists at housing hearing call for public funding, regulatory reform
Sturla, D-Lancaster, co-chairs the state House’s Housing & Community Affairs Committee. Monday’s gathering was an informational hearing on housing development in Lancaster County. A dozen invited panelists filled in committee members on the barriers they face in bringing housing online, and their suggestions to improve matters. The housing shortage is being recognized as a crisis locally, regionally and nationally. Pennsylvania has an estimated shortfall of 235,000 housing units in the $300,000 to $350,000 price range, Sturla said, or about $80 billion dollars worth, the result of chronic underinvestment in the years following the Great Recession.
