Huffington Post reporter Michael Hobbes posed two questions to a panel of Boulder housing leaders at a Monday evening event trained on the region’s current affordability crisis: “How did we get here,” and less directly, what do we do about it next?
For Boulder County leaders and its increasingly priced-out residents, the answers are both as urgent and familiar as perhaps they have ever been, officials say.
The conversation came during the fourth stop on the “Listen to America: A Huffpost Road Trip,” a two-week journey throughout five Western states to “highlight under-covered communities and issues.”
Naturally, in Boulder County, the conversation would steer toward the woes and remedies of the housing market.
An extra $400 million will be needed to fund Boulder County’s affordable housing plans over the next 16 years, according to information released in June by the Regional Housing Partnership.
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