With a need for affordable housing in the region and observations of housing authority success in areas like Nampa and Blaine County, the city council has taken steps toward implementing Sandpoint’s own housing authority.
Breaking Chains Academy's Luis Granados says the doors are always open for any teenager who needs a safe place to land. The goal? To put them on a path to success.
Boise area needs affordable housing. What happened when a developer proposed some
SARAH A. MILLER SMILLER@IDAHOSTATESMAN.COM
Vicki McMinn Coburn and Randy Coburn stand on their property, at the corner of S. Grays Lane and E. Amity Ave. in Nampa. Their property includes a large field that a developer wanted to turn into affordable housing.
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Rodney Cook works as a school bus driver, picking up students from their homes in the morning
and dropping them off in the afternoon. He does this knowing that his own children donât have a place to come home to after school.
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For decades, Canyon County many considered a reliable place for low-income renters to find a place they could afford to live.
But not so much anymore.
As the Treasure Valley’s population swelled in recent years, home prices and rents shot up at a record pace along with it. Prices in Boise and its immediate Ada County suburbs are rising so high many workers are leaving the county and searching further afield for an apartment to rent within their price range. They’re searching in Ada County’s relatively more affordable neighbor to the west, but there’s not much available anymore there either.