From 2002 through 2023, a total of 32,846 bids were made for 1,278 sales of local affordable housing units that went through an APCHA lottery where the number of bids was recorded.
Tag: Affordable housing
Posted inIn search of community
Housing solutions are many and challenging
The housing issue has become a pressing concern throughout the region, where necessity becomes the mother of invention as seen in varied approaches striving to address a growing community crisis.
Posted inIn search of community
Housing: Where social justice confronts economics
“This is a social justice issue when you have people traveling long distances and leaving children to fend for themselves. It is wrong for our region. Affordable housing is the underpinning of our success as a community, long term.”
Posted inSocial justice
More than two-thirds of Aspen’s occupied homes are deed-restricted
Among the 3,278 full-time occupied units in Aspen, 70% are deed-restricted as of July, for a total of 2,303. This represents about 39% of the city’s total units. Aspen has the highest number of deed-restricted units out of the 43 communities surveyed and the second-highest proportion of deed-restricted units after the 1,266 deed-restricted units in Breckenridge accounting for 73% of that community’s full-time households.
Posted inEnvironment
Plan to donate Castle Creek land for school, hospital housing project faces hurdles
“We’re no different from anyone else in our valley looking for quality employees,” the superintendent said, “and it’s the first question asked on every single application whether it’s a mechanic, a teacher, a bus driver or a school principal.”
Posted inLocal Public Data
With 99% of cases finalized, Pitkin County property values increase 72% with reappraisal
Pitkin County commissioners, sitting as the Board of Equalization on Wednesday, approved the updated property valuations after more than 4,700 protests were filed in the spring. The cumulative value of all Pitkin County properties reached $74 billion before the hearing process was conducted throughout the summer. This was up from $42 billion in 2022. After the hearings, the cumulative value is down to $72.4 billion (an average of $4 million per property).
Posted inSocial justice
Organizing mobile-home owners as investors gobble up parks
What Sullivan and his neighbors worry about — corporate ownership takeover, creeping unaffordability, the potential for the park to be displaced by redevelopment — is happening at an accelerating rate, both in the Roaring Fork Valley and across Colorado, prompting stronger policy prescriptions from elected officials and community leaders.
Posted inSocial justice
Bill aims to address water quality at mobile home parks
Water quality in mobile home parks is an environmental-justice issue for the Latino community.
Posted inSocial justice
Nonprofit coalition aims to buy down homes to create affordable housing
The group would give homeowners cash to help make the purchase — $100,000 or more, coalition members estimate — in exchange for placing a deed restriction on the properties at purchase to keep them occupied by local people who intend to live there full time.
Posted inLocal Public Data
APCHA’s RO category supports a growing number of million-dollar homes
The concept of RO — housing locals who don’t otherwise fit into the numbered categories and accommodating properties that also couldn’t easily be categorized — is an important one in one of the country’s most robust affordable-housing programs. But, is it working?