The Buildout
The Buildout
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The Buildout is a podcast from Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, CHFA, featuring the stories, people, and innovative ideas driving affordable housing and community development in Colorado.
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The podcast focuses on pressing issues surrounding affordable housing and community development in Colorado, including episodes dedicated to urban and rural homelessness responses, innovative housing strategies such as modular construction, and discussions on the history and evolution of CHFA's mission. For instance, recent episodes explore collaborations among soup kitchens and housing organizations, as well as the state's strategies for tackling a significant deficit in affordable housing units.
The Buildout is a podcast from Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, CHFA, featuring the stories, people, and innovative ideas driving affordable housing and community development in Colorado.
To address the shortage of affordable housing, Colorado must do more than build new units. That’s why this episode is focused on increased efforts to preserve the affordable housing that’s already standing. There are two kinds of affordable housing that the state is at risk of losing: housing that is built with government subsidies, and privately owned apartments that happen to have below market rents – often referred to as naturally occurring affordable housing.
When it comes to the privately owned buildings, Lori Rosendahl of Foothills Regional Housing Authority explains what it takes to keep those rents low and those tenants housed. Hint: she says it’s a lot of “dialing for dollars.” As for the subsidized housing, Jennie Rodgers, Rocky Mountain VP for Enterprise Community Partners, discusses the tools nonprofits and governments can take advantage of to preserve affordability for decades to come.
Resources from this episode:
- Learn more about the Colorado Affordable Housing Preservation Network
- Learn more about Foothills Regional Housing’s work in Jefferson County
- Read more about how Enterprise Community Partners is helping local housing authorities and nonprofits be proactive about preservation work
- Check out the Colorado Affordable Housing Database Map
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