Making housing affordable

"I don't really like the term affordable housing," Jezria Latham, broker and owner of Provident Realty said. "I have been trying to figure out another term because, clearly, what is affordable to some people is not affordable to others."

Latham prefers to think of affordable housing as income-based housing and there are different tiers and brackets.

"What I am seeing for those looking to come into the Valley-such as police officers, teachers and entry level health care personnel that are just starting their career-there is not a lot of housing for them to get into," Latham said. "Hopefully,...