Northeast North Dakota rural housing supply 'might have reached the point of crisis'
Preliminary findings of a rural housing study were presented at a Grand Forks building session on Tuesday, April 9.
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Preliminary findings of a rural housing study were presented at a Grand Forks building session on Tuesday, April 9.
“We’ve been having extraordinary difficulty securing a builder to complete the construction project close to the project estimate,” Dawn Mandt said.
The owners of Oxbow Orchards, together with their six children, sell apples, honey and chrysanthemums in a rainbow of colors on their farm near Grafton, North Dakota.
Members of the Region 4 stakeholders group have been asked to review the roughly 25 applications and select three final candidates, who will be informed of their selection in the coming days.
“In all the years that we’ve been here, I would have never thought in 100 million years we’d ever have to close up half the restaurant,” said Thompson.