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Recommendation 6: Address affordable housing as an economic issue. <br />Promote affordable housing in order to support <br />good businesses. <br />Note: Affordable housing is dealt with in -depth in the Housing section on page 58. <br />Action Strategy: <br />A. Encourage local Chambers of Commerce to appoint a group made up of developers and <br />business people, with housing advocates to understand and address housing affordability <br />and diversity as an economic /business issue, and get the business community more <br />involved in seeking solutions to this issue. <br />Recommendation 7: Expand services provided by the Skills Development <br />Center. <br />Action Strategies: <br />A. Make the Skills Development Center a comprehensive classroom skills training and <br />job placement center. The Center should work in connection with community colleges and <br />high schools to provide marketable skills training, well- funded English as a Second Language <br />(ESL) and literacy classes, and job placement services. <br />B. Develop a center with facilities for hands on technical skills application. <br />Recommendation 8: Develop a partnership involving the Skills <br />Development Center, high schools, and higher <br />education institutions with the business community <br />to train workers and provide job opportunities. <br />Project needs for trained workforce members; identify prospective "trainees " with appropriate <br />potential; invest to develop trained workforce. <br />Recommendation 9: Lobby legislature to locate a branch of Durham <br />Technical Community College in Orange County (i.e. <br />a West Campus of Durham Technical Community <br />College). <br />Orange County is one of the few counties of its size without a community college. <br />