affordable housing crisis

A "David and Goliath story" ends with residents of the Westside mobile home park in Durango, Colorado, keeping their homes, with a lot of help from their neighbors.

Read or listen to the news headlines for Friday, April 29, 2022.

The affordable housing crisis is usually understood as a problem in the Mountain West’s cities and resort towns. But it’s also happening in rural areas with booming economies.

Homelessness is a growing problem in Western cities. Some communities are setting up their own encampments.

Building new affordable housing takes time, but knocking it down can happen practically overnight.

Housing costs are rising fast in our region as economic development attracts new residents and supply chain problems cause building delays. But a federal program that helps low-income renters is falling short.

“What we’re starting to see is that affordable housing can no longer be ignored,” says Megan Lawson of Headwaters Economics.

The idea of selling public lands is sacrilegious in much of the West. In Southern Nevada, the affordable housing crisis may be an extenuating circumstance.

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