Do you have ideas and solutions to help address housing challenges in Boulder?

There are many pieces to the affordable housing puzzle and they all need to fit together. Co-ops, more ADUs (which will allow for more rental use of homes, as compared to the proliferation of short term rentals which doesn’t provide more affordable long-term housing), permanently affordable houses, tiny homes, occupancy limits based on size of home rather than number of unrelated adults. One important factor to remember in discussions about affordable housing is that most of the people who need/want affordable housing cannot engage in the discussion because they can’t afford to live here yet. The result is that discussions can easily be lopsided.

Currently it is illegal to cross the railroad tracks, but this problem has been solved in other locations (e.g. South of Hwy 52 on Reservoir Trail).

I believe the greatest problem is lack of land. Fortunately, the City and County of Boulder owns a substantial amount of open space. If the city were to provide a small amount of lesser desired open space, a “Williams Village” style campus could provide a great deal of affordable housing for the many that need it.

Revenue generated from a Public Bank can be funneled back into the city's budget for any number of different projects for instance subsidizing homes and apartments for lower income individuals, purchasing mobile home parks to create community land trusts for resident owners, and services for people without homes. Please google the State Bank of North Dakota to see how brilliantly public banking has supported the state of ND over the past 100 years.