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Cooperation, Innovation and Thought

Developers Craft Creative Financing Deals to Meet Growing Need for Workforce Housing

8 min read

A lack of workforce housing is a growing element of the nation’s housing crisis and some developers who typically build affordable housing are creatively pulling together financing for housing projects for workers who make above area median income (AMI) but cannot afford market-rate rents.

“Nest, Not Nest Eggs”

Inside the Workforce Housing Struggle in Colorado’s Mountain Towns

8 min read

Over the last two decades, a workforce housing shift has occurred in the many resort towns and communities across the United States.

Case Study

Smith Ranch Apartments in Silverthorne, CO

6 min read

Developers and state housing agencies are scrambling to find programs that will help workers in expensive communities be able to live in the same towns they work in.