A week before Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg went to City Hall to lay out his plan for next year’s budget, a coalition of 40 community groups penned a letter in the newspaper with a clear ask: Increase funding for new affordable housing and provide more support for homeless people.

The coalition — which includes Metro United Way, ACLU of Kentucky, Greater Louisville Inc. and others — warned that despite Louisville’s recent business and tourism growth, residents’ housing challenges “are more dire than ever.”

According to the most recent housing needs assessment, Louisville is short more than 36,000 housing units for its poorest residents. And, last year, a point-in-time count found a 10% increase in the number of people without a place of their own. Rents for market-rate apartments in L

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