TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — To help relieve a shortage of affordable places to live, Pima County Supervisors are devoting a larger share of property tax dollars to build more affordable housing.

The move will not raise taxes for the coming tax year.

Pima County supervisors are trying to relieve homelessness by encouraging developers to build more housing low income people can afford to rent. They’re doing that by using a larger share of the property tax homeowners pay to create incentives for developers to build affordable housing.

Advocates for the homeless believe many of them are simply priced out of the market by rent prices they just can't afford. Pima County was already devoting five million dollars a year to encourage construction of low income housing but Supervisor Matt Heinz advoca

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