MANAGER INSIGHTS #1: A Case for Public Entities Housing Their Own Asked by NWCCOG “in one word what is your top internal challenge?” The municipal and county managers interviewed across the NWCCOG region in early 2023 replied— 14 — Staffing/ Recruitment/ Retention/ Turnover/Fit or 7 — Capacity/ Bandwidth/ Demand, or Read more…
And if they are, will this most-basic public need–affordable, workforce housing– always be underfunded? If high country ballot questions from November 2022 are a measure, the housing issues are not equally felt across the state, but voters are clear about the problem up here. CML reports that this November short Read more…
What happens when a mountain community approaches workforce housing as if responding to a disaster? Those of us in attendance at the Spring Colorado City and County Managers Association (CCCMA) conference in Glenwood on April 14th got a glimpse of two communities that recently treated housing as a crisis. The Read more…
I am still absorbing the U.S. Mountain Community Summit presented by APX1 and hosted by the Town of Vail January 14-17th to sift through what set it apart from other forums on the resort housing challenge. For one, it wasn’t the usual one-hand clapping conversation among public officials and staff Read more…