By Tim Steller | tucson.com
It’s just another dirt lot in one of Tucson’s older neighborhoods.
People park cars there occasionally, to go to nearby Davis Bilingual Elementary Magnet School, or to Oury Recreation Center. The patch of land collects the usual desert debris when the wind blows.
Now it also serves as a symbol of the challenges the city of Tucson and developers may face as they try to build the local housing stock and keep prices within reach for locals. City officials foresee the need for 35,000 units of additional housing in the next 10 years and are pushing to get units built on city-owned land.
