Summit to tackle middle-income housing needs

BOULDER — Registration opened Tuesday for BizWest’s Boulder Valley Middle-Income Housing Summit, an event aimed at fostering collaboration and innovation in addressing the issues of housing that is affordable to the Boulder Valley’s “missing middle” workforce.

The event will be held from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. June 18 at Kittredge Central Hall, 2480 Kittredge Loop Drive on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.

The summit will bring together stakeholders from the private and public sectors, including real estate developers, government officials and community members. Panelists and attendees will delve into key challenges in developing housing that is accessible to the region’s workforce and their families, with a particular focus on for-sale products that provide the opportunity for them to build future equity.

Through panel discussions and breakout discussions, those attending will attempt to generate actionable solutions and forge partnerships that will shape the future of attainable middle-income housing in the region. The expertise and insights are invaluable in that process.

After opening remarks by Julie Gibson at CU’s Michael A. Klump Center for Real Estate at the Leeds School of Business, former state Rep. Jonathan Singer of the Boulder Chamber will facilitate several panel discussions.

DJ Summers of the Common Sense Institute will introduce its Starter Home Initiative template, and a panel developing a “Missing-Middle Playbook” will include Singer, Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett, Kurt Firnhaber of the City of Boulder, John Koval of Coburn Partners and Andrew Moore of the Town of Erie.

Early-bird tickets at $75.09 will be available until June 5. From then until the day before the event, general-admission tickets will be $85.59. At the event, tickets will sell for $96.09 if seats are still available. Tickets can be purchased here.

Leeds and the Klump Center are the event’s host sponsors, and the Boulder Chamber is the presenting sponsor. Associate sponsors are Alchemer, the Lyons Gaddis law firm and the Town of Superior.

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