For Star subscribers: It's still one-party rule in Arizona's Legislature, so half-baked bills by GOP extremists like Sen. Wendy Rogers get passed, while serious Dem proposals to confront the housing crisis languish.
Tim Steller The Republican legislators didn't conceal their skepticism about the bill floated by their colleague, Sen. Wendy Rogers.
But if you’re a Republican, low-priority ideas that touch on hot-button topics, like the Chinese Communist Party, often get a friendly committee hearing and passage to the next stage. For example, this session: Among U.S. cities with the fastest rent increases between January 2021 and January 2022, six Arizona cities were in the top 16, according to a Jan. 26, 2022 report by Apartment List. They are Scottsdale, Mesa, Phoenix, Glendale, Chandler and Gilbert.
For this city and state, this has become a housing crisis. But the Legislature prefers to focus on taking culture-war stands. One bill, HB 2446, would eliminate a state prohibition on cities establishing"inclusionary zoning," by which cities require that in a given area, a certain portion of the homes in new developments must be affordable. Another, HB 2793, would prohibit landlords from raising rent by more than 10 percent in a given year unless their properties are substantially remodeled.
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