Chamber alliance offers support for affordable-housing efforts

BOULDER — The leaders of the Northwest Chamber Alliance have sent a letter to municipal and county elected officials expressing their support of efforts to address a shortage of workforce housing in the region that will be discussed Friday at a regional housing summit.

The Affordable Housing Summit will bring together county commissioners, mayors, and city council and town board members and some of their staff from across the region to discuss a draft plan prepared by the Boulder County Regional Housing Partnership.

The Xilinx Retreat Center in Longmont, the venue for the summit, has a…