What’s city of Boulder’s housing strategy all about?

At its retreat in January 1998, the City Council directed the development of a Comprehensive Housing Strategy as one of four goals for the next two years along with revising the budget process, addressing transportation issues and redeveloping the Crossroads Mall.

Housing became a council goal due to recent trends in housing prices that have limited the housing choices in Boulder to increasingly higher income groups. Incomes have not kept pace with the price and rental value of homes and apartments.

A broad sector of people who once had the opportunity…