The Henderson City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to create a housing advisory committee to address the shortage of housing for workers in the city.
The move to create a housing committee has been in the works for “quite a while,” said Mayor Michelle Romero, who called the committee the brainchild of Councilman Dan Shaw.
“We have a critical need to figure out how to provide workforce housing in this community,” Shaw said Tuesday night.
Shaw noted that 80 percent of the employees of Henderson’s Amazon Fulfillment Center drive in from North Las Vegas to work. They don’t live in Henderson mostly because they can’t afford to buy or rent homes in the city, he said.
“In my estimation, this is the most critical committee we need to have right now,” he said.