New affordable housing units going up in Arizona

PHOENIX — A caller affordable lodging portion is going up successful Phoenix wherever those who suffice volition beryllium capable to bargain the homes.

Trellis, a non-profit that advocates for homeownership, is gathering 43 units successful the Sunnyslope vicinity with the plans to merchantability the properties aft 15 years.

The townhomes volition scope from two, three, and 4 bedrooms for those who suffice for the lower- to moderate-income.

Trellis says that 100% of the units volition beryllium reserved for households with incomes beneath 60% of the area's median income — truthful for example, a one-person household would request to gain astir $33,000 a twelvemonth oregon little to qualify.

“These are radical who enactment successful our communities, they enactment hard, but they conscionable don’t person capable wealth to wage the existent marketplace rents,” said Patricia Garcia Duarte, CEO of Trellis.

New information from Apartment List shows that rent prices successful Phoenix are up astir 31% since the commencement of the pandemic successful March 2020.

Median rent prices successful Phoenix are astatine $1,211 for a one-bedroom and $1,479 for a two-bedroom.

Trellis has helped physique 310 homes with implicit 100 much units to come, but these affordable homes person their limitations arsenic non-profits can’t bash them alone.

“The biggest setback and challenges successful providing affordable lodging is that it takes everyone backstage sector, public, and private,” said Duarte.

Trellis is not taking applications for the units yet but plans to astir springtime 2022.

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Nicole Grigg astatine KNXV archetypal reported this story.