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Nov 04 2021
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Affordable Housing

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Affordable Housing, Middle Income Housing, Communty Housing, Workforce Housing…housing of all sorts is front and center for our community as we emerge from the shadow of COVID. Employers are strugglng to staff main street locations, our hospital keeps getting job offer turn-downs and our schools struggling to replace the crop of retiring teachers. Lack of access to housing, both for purchase and long-term rental, constrains the supply of workforce talent available. This creates cahllenges for local business owners to deliver good and services to our area’s high standards.
But all the news is not bad. After decades of inattention, the housing crisis in Blaine Co is finally receiving more serious attention from a wider variety of players. This month’s newsletter includes several headline articles that focus on some positive housing stories.
To further the dialogue on housing and our economy, SVED will be hosting a virtual Community Forum on November 16th and 17th in conjunction with Visit Sun Valley. This on-line event will review how our community’s economy has fared since the start of COVID and explore how resilient businesses, governement and individuals can help us survive and thrive over the next 18 months. In advance of this event, SVED has curated the 2021 Economic Almanac in partnership with the Idaho Mt. Express to set the stage for participants with a wide variety of facts and figures.
No charge for admission this year so we hope you can join us for one or both sessions.
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Jan 07 2020
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Bellevue OK's Strahorn

47 new lots to be ready by late summer early fall!

https://www.mtexpress.com/news/bellevue/after--month-process-bellevue-oks-strahorn/article_45760862-25d7-11ea-90f4-1764e881f3fd.html
Jan 07 2020
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SVED Announces Ready Teams for Housing & Marketing!

Sign up and SVED will let you know when housing issues and marketing funding are being discussed. You choose when and how to participate.

https://conta.cc/301hssK
Nov 09 2018
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Builders Shrink Home Sizes to Appeal to More Buyers
"After years of catering to move-up buyers with substantial budgets, builders are introducing new models with lower price tags and smaller footprints — oftentimes the size of a two-bedroom apartment. They’re doing so by building on smaller lots, skimping on high-end materials, such as granite and brick, and designing floor plans that eliminate formal dining and living rooms, foyers and other spaces that often go unused." "...homes with the smallest floor plans — the 1,200-square-foot “Adams” model and 1,400-square-foot “Taft” — account for nearly 60 percent of sales, according to the builder, PulteGroup of Atlanta. Both models are built on 40-foot-wide lots and have three bedrooms and two bathrooms."
This can be part of the solution in Blaine County. We need zoning districts that will allow for the small lots however.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Builders-shrink-home-sizes-to-appeal-to-more-13351073.php#photo-16424791
Sep 21 2018
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Housing Doesn’t Have to Be So Expensive

By Business, Housing

We really like this piece in Bloomberg Businessweek

Housing Doesn’t Have To Be So Expensive:   Bringing down prices requires a combination of affordable homes and upzoning

Some excerpts to consider:

“Housing prices needn’t be high just because an area is hemmed in by water or mountains”

“Constraints on housing prevent people from joining, and contributing to, clusters of innovation”

“Arguably,” Harvard economist Edward Glaeser wrote in a Brookings Institution paper last year, “land use controls have a more widespread impact on the lives of ordinary Americans than any other regulation.”

Jul 17 2018
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Will Blaine County Be Able to Staff our Health Care Facilities?

By Business, Housing, News, Social

The US can’t keep up with demand for health aides, nurses and doctors.

The US will need to hire 2.3 million new health care workers by 2025 in order to adequately take care of its aging population, a new report finds.

But a persistent shortage of skilled workers — from nurses to physicians to lab technicians — will mean hundreds of thousands of positions will remain unfilled…

“In local economies, the retail industry could present one of the largest pools of labor for health care systems to effectively retain workers for jobs such as home health aides,” he said.

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