Gov. Katie Hobbs picked an apartment complex on 19th Street to talk about one of her biggest wins in the fiscal year 2024 state budget: dropping $150 million into Arizona’s Housing Trust Fund.
“Projects like Soluna (apartments), where we’re standing today, are exactly the type of developments that we can build when we invest real money into dealing with our housing crisis,” Hobbs said at a news conference on Monday morning, flanked by dozens of activists and officials involved in housing and homelessness work.
A few hours later, Sen. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, made a case for what he said are the wins he and other Republican lawmakers got in the final budget deal.
Hoffman spoke with members of the “Freedom Caucus” he chairs about a one-year tax rebate some Republicans orchestrated for Arizona families and criticized other lawmakers – especially the Democrats – for not contributing to it.
