BY Scott Miller | December 30, 2020
Communities in Scotts Bluff, Morrill and Kimball counties are kicking in funding for an effort intended to boost workforce housing in the region.
The Western Nebraska Rural Workforce Housing Grant Fund is a pool of loan funding intended to be leveraged with a state economic development grant being applied for in January that would match those state funds dollar for dollar. Panhandle Area Development District had previously applied for a state rural workforce housing grant in 2018, but was not successful at that time, and this year Twin Cities Development will oversee the grant application process.
Earlier this month, TCD Executive Director Rawnda Pierce explained to the Gering Council that the intent of the fund is to provide the financial backstop for expansion of affordable housing in and around the communities that have bought into the