Denver Post: Colorado’s affordable-housing shortfall needs a crisis response, study urges
But addressing the shortfall will require unprecedented actions and intense coordination among the public, private and nonprofit sectors, a new white paper the Common Sense Institute released on Friday argues.
“We have to act with a sense of urgency. If we don’t act now the decisions will get harder,” said Peter LiFari, executive director of Maker Housing Partners, who co-authored a housing development blueprint along with co-author Evelyn Lim, formerly the administrator for HUD’s Region 8.
Lim and LiFari, fellows at the free-enterprise focused CSI, interviewed 40 housing experts across Colorado trying to gather their thoughts on addressing Colorado’s housing shortages, what is working and not working, and what they would do to fix the problem.