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BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. – The Butte County Board of Supervisors is looking to use Camp Fire disaster recovery money to build more multi-family housing.

At today’s supervisor meeting, supervisors voted to send a letter to the state, requesting local control over some disaster recovery money that is coming to the county.

The state department of housing and community development originally awarded the county $7.1 million in disaster recovery money for affordable housing development. The county initially planned for nine different multi-family housing projects. Five of the projects are almost completed, but the county needs more money to complete the last four.

“We want to make sure that decisions about local housing are not made at the state level, but made at the local level so that is what the board of supervisors is essentially requesting …