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As Summit County and its partners continue brainstorming and moving projects forward to fill the gap in needed affordable and attainable housing, there’s one recurring question that’s always asked: Where is the money coming from?.
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At the Summit Board of County Commissioners work session meeting Tuesday, June 15, staff from the Summit County Housing Department unveiled a robust plan of short-, mid- and long-term strategies to help mitigate the affordable housing shortage.
The primary goal laid out by the county is to get 1,000 additional units on the market within the next 12 to 18 months by implementing some of the short-term strategies.
County officials and staff had mentioned in previous meetings that the workforce housing issue was of top concern and that it’s a complex problem that will take a multitude of strategies to solve.
The Village at Wintergreen brought nearly 200 affordable housing units to Keystone when it first opened, the largest workforce housing project recently completed by the county. There is a workforce housing shortage in Summit County, and local leaders are currently brainstorming ways to solve what they re calling a crisis.
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Summit County Commissioner Tamara Pogue has described the area’s housing issue as a crisis in multiple instances.
“This is a crisis,” Pogue said April 29. “This is not something we have ever seen in Summit County, and while I admire the work that Summit County government has done in the 367 units that we’ve built in the past five years, that kind of thinking is not necessarily going to get us to a solution.”