Boise City Council member Scot Ludwig has sued the city of Ketchum over the affordable housing fees the city charges for development projects that exceed a certain size. Ludwig got a charge of $840,000 from Ketchum in community housing in ...
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February 8, 2017
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Construction and housing officials are waiting to see what impact the new Trump Administration has on the way they do business. Affordable housing proponents have identified a few areas of concern: Potential cuts in Section 8 housing subsidies and operating ...
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Read More »The Housing Company is building its 12th affordable housing project in the greater Treasure Valley on State Street in downtown Star. Construction on the 37-unit Moon Valley Apartments started in early September and the first of six two-story residential structures ...
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The Boise City/Ada County Housing Authority will add its first newly built affordable housing complex for families in nearly 15 years with construction of the 50-unit Sandhill Crane Apartments. These will be built in what the city of Boise is ...
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September 22, 2016
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Garden City-based Community Development Inc. will open its second affordable housing complex in Emmett in phases from December to May. Construction started in August on the 37-unit Ross Island at Moffett Cove with the community building and first six-unit housing ...
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July 20, 2016
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The McCall area has another 10 months to wait before it finds out if it will win $1 million, $2 million or $3 million in the America’s Best Communities competition. But Valley County/Meadows Valley – the name the region initially ...
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There is no affordable housing available in Idaho for minimum wage workers who need an apartment at fair market rent, according to a report released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. The Washington, D.C.,-based research and advocacy organization determined ...
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Non-profit housing developers are being asked to come up with ideas to build a housing complex to serve as a home for 25 to 30 chronically homeless people in Boise. The city of Boise and Idaho Housing and Finance Association ...
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February 2, 2016
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A 50-unit combined affordable housing and market rate apartment complex is being considered for the site across the street from the five-story, 111-room Limelight Hotel under construction now in downtown Ketchum. The Ketchum Urban Renewal Agency, managed by the city ...
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June 3, 2015
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The Trailwinds apartment project nearing completion off Veterans Parkway in Garden City puts the new face of affordable housing on display, a far cry from the “projects” and “tenements” of generations past. Trailwinds, a co-development of local developer VCD and ...
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