Solving Idaho’s affordable housing puzzle with partnerships
Bart Cochran
Affordable housing is a water-cooler topic these days. Mostly because this issue affects us all whether you are struggling with rising housing costs or you know someone who is, it is not uncommon for this issue to touch most all lives.
As the founder and executive director of an affordable housing nonprofit, I am often asked how has both a rapidly appreciating real estate market and COVID-19 affected the work we do and those with whom we work. Forgive my flippant response, but honestly, it has affected every aspect.
Every day, my team and I are plodding through the floodwaters of an affordable housing crisis whose tide has only risen with the complications of steadily increasing housing prices, inbound migration and very limited housing inventory. At the time of publication, for example, we will have put two more units of affordable housing on the rental market in Nampa, receiving more interest