Hays County moves to curb local activities of far-flung housing entities

by @ianofAustin

A number of bills working their way through the state Legislature would crack down on “traveling” HFCs, a derisive term for such entities that use their legal status to arrange tax breaks for developers in exchange for large fees far outside the jurisdictions in which they were created and without any local input.

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