Monday, April 7, 2025 | 2 a.m.
Throughout Las Vegas you possibly can see the consequences of the reasonably priced housing disaster. Google “Who’s the governor of Nevada?” and you will notice one among its determinants.
Gov. Joe Lombardo just lately launched the Nevada Housing Entry and Attainability Act, or Meeting Invoice 540, a landmark however lengthy overdue piece of laws that intends to handle rising eviction charges and price of homeownership, which have been felt by Nevadans for years, by including $250 million to the overall fund, and finally issuing $1 billion for attainable housing wants and initiatives.
Though this invoice is sweet information, one can’t assist however surprise the place the delay was in producing it. Lombardo has been governor since 2023. The housing points plaguing 1000’s of Nevadans yearly started lengthy earlier than he assumed energy. However since moving into workplace, Lombardo has vetoed many items of laws, together with Senate Invoice 335, which may have elevated tenant protections and reformed the eviction course of.
When introducing AB 540, Lombardo claimed that for him, reasonably priced housing has at all times been a “point of interest.” He could profit from a quick private historical past lesson earlier than persevering with on in his campaign for good individual factors.
