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Flagstaff may be seeing a new commission, this one dedicated to finding solutions to Flagstaff’s issues of affordable housing, after a decision from the Flagstaff City Council earlier this month.

The purpose of the body would be to make recommendations to Council on how to address issues of affordable housing in the city, be that through changes to zoning code, changes to city housing programs or another bonding question, said Mayor Coral Evans, who brought up the subject.

Councilmember Jim McCarthy agreed, adding the commission should not be restricted to finding solutions through purely government action but also how the city may be able to get private business to help combat the issue.

“I don’t want it to be limited to just government involved affordable housing,” McCarthy said. “That should be part of it, but we also need to focus on market rate, reasonable priced housing and what can be done to facilitate that.”

The affordable housing proposition on the last election's ballot would have set up a similar body, but was shot down by voters.

Council has indicated the body would be made up of industry stakeholders like real estate agents and developers, nonprofits working on housing issues, and citizens.