January 31, 2025

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Boulder inches closer to providing more affordable housing

Community Spotlight Diagonal Boulder
A rendering shows the apartments planned for Diagonal Plaza. Courtesy Boulder Housing Partners
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BOULDER — Prior to COVID-19, roughly 60,000 commuters would travel to Boulder daily for work. Living there wasn’t in the cards.

While, given the shift toward working from home during the pandemic, there are likely fewer commuters traveling Colorado Highway 119 and U.S, Highway 36 to earn a living, the idea of living in Boulder has increasingly become something only the very-well-compensated can do.

But there is plenty of movement in that space that has opened up Boulder as a place to work and live, says Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett. At present the city has 1,000 new affordable housing units in the…

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Sharon Dunn is an award-winning journalist covering business, banking, real estate, energy, local government and crime in Northern Colorado since 1994. She began her journalism career in Alaska after graduating Metropolitan State College in Denver in 1992. She found her way back to Colorado, where she worked at the Greeley Tribune for 25 years. She has a master's degree in communications management from the University of Denver. She is married and has one grown daughter — and a beloved English pointer at her side while she writes. When not writing, you may find her enjoying embroidery and crochet projects, watching football, or kayaking and birdwatching on a high-mountain lake.
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