Comments on: What if you had “Affordable Housing” and nobody came? http://www.ncwrealestateblog.com/2008/04/04/what-if-you-had-affordable-housing-and-nobody-came/ The Best Real Estate Blog of North Central Washington Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:04:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: The Wenatchee World » Looking ahead: affordable housing http://www.ncwrealestateblog.com/2008/04/04/what-if-you-had-affordable-housing-and-nobody-came/comment-page-1/#comment-25 The Wenatchee World » Looking ahead: affordable housing Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:21:35 +0000 http://www.ncwrealestateblog.com/2008/04/04/what-if-you-had-affordable-housing-and-nobody-came/#comment-25 [...] A city of Wenatchee consultant (David Paul Rosen & Associates) is studying the need for affordable housing — and how to meet that need — makes its report Thursday. Click here to read Chris Pratt’s advance report on the meeting. There is wide agreement that housing affordability is a problem in the Wenatchee area. Aside from personal experience of people trying to buy a home, the issue is kept before the public by rising home prices of recent years and the the pending eviction of Ninth Street Trailer Park residents to make room for riverfront development. The real estate industry generally would like to see denser development and fewer regulations to cut the cost of housing. Here’s one industry view on the issue and Thursday’s sessions. [...] [...] A city of Wenatchee consultant (David Paul Rosen & Associates) is studying the need for affordable housing — and how to meet that need — makes its report Thursday. Click here to read Chris Pratt’s advance report on the meeting. There is wide agreement that housing affordability is a problem in the Wenatchee area. Aside from personal experience of people trying to buy a home, the issue is kept before the public by rising home prices of recent years and the the pending eviction of Ninth Street Trailer Park residents to make room for riverfront development. The real estate industry generally would like to see denser development and fewer regulations to cut the cost of housing. Here’s one industry view on the issue and Thursday’s sessions. [...]

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