Housing Cmte. $37 Million Short, Approves Land Purchase for Police Academy, Despite #NoCopAcademy Pushback

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City Council’s Housing Committee meets to consider the land acquisition for the new police and fire academy. Credit: A.D. Quig

City Council’s Housing Committee unanimously approved its two agenda items, the purchase of a 30-acre plot in the city’s 37th Ward for construction of police and fire academy that is not fully funded and a new mayoral program to sell city-owned lots for $1 for developers to build affordable housing.

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