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expand the base of higher income jobs. (City, Goodwill Industries, <br />TWC, Coastal Bend Workforce Center within two years and an <br />ongoing effort). <br />ISSUE 7: Lack of adequate affordable housing. <br />6081 /: Increase affordable housing supply. <br />Recommendations: <br />o City should take the initiative in affordable housing development, <br />providing various incentives and regulations, <br />o Provide Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units, and <br />o Leverage federal funds with private resources for housing. <br />Action Steps: <br />o Use of tools like voluntary inclusionary zoning programs, <br />encouraging developers to include affordable housing units when <br />building new developments (City, Builders' and Landlords' <br />Associations within five years, evaluate and modify the programs <br />and tools), <br />o City must work to expand the impact of the federal funding <br />available by increased leveraging of resources from lending <br />institutions, developers, corporate entities, and other sources (City, <br />developers, Builders' and Landlords' Associations, lending <br />institutions, within five years and an ongoing effort), <br />o Developers should be encouraged to construct SRO housing (City, <br />Builders' Associations and developers within five years and <br />54 <br />