Two Fingerlakes communities are receiving a share of the $5 million in grant funding awarded to help pro-housing communities boost housing production.
Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday that 26 pro-housing communities across New York State would receive up to $250,000 in technical assistance grants to help create master plans, conduct market studies and zoning analyses, streamline building permits, and similar efforts to help create more housing.
“The Pro-Housing Communities Program is a true partnership between the State and localities that tackles the housing shortage, makes it possible for people to live in the communities of their choice and serves as an effective vehicle for aligning housing and local economic development,” Governor Hochul said. “That’s why we are making additional resources available to the 400-and-counting certified Pro-Housing Communities that will help them succeed in creating the housing New Yorkers want and need.”
In the Fingerlakes, both the Town of Owasco and the City of Geneva each received $250,000 in grant funding.
