Housing Solutions Community Brainstorm
Consultation has concluded
Do you have ideas and solutions to help address housing challenges in Boulder? The Housing Advisory Board wants to hear them.
The newly formed Housing Advisory Board (HAB) wants to brainstorm housing solutions with Boulder residents. They are offering two ways to participate:
- In-person at HAB’s Aug, 22 meeting. This meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers in the Municipal Building at 1777 Broadway. Each speaker will have up to five minutes to present their solution. Sign-ups will begin at 5:45 p.m. Contact Cori Marin, MarinC@bouldercolorado.gov, if you have questions about making a presentation.
- Online here at Be Heard Boulder, where participants can submit their housing solutions and vote on other submissions. This online participation option will close on Sept 5.
The input provided online and in-person will be used by HAB members to help inform their work plan, find trends, identify synergies with current city work and bring great ideas forward as recommendations to city council and boards.
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The Housing Advisory Board wants to hear your ideas. Please share your ideas here and vote on others that have been submitted.
Be aware that your post will be available for the public to view.
View All Ideasalmost 2 years ago
Establish a Boulder Public Bank
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.
almost 2 years ago
Increase the housing density of Boulder to meet the demand
That's literally it. Build more, denser housing, in Boulder. Why is this is a good solution: supply and demand are relatively well understood. Right now there is more supply than demand. Who will this affect negativity: people who are using housing as an investment and hope the asset appreciates. Who will this affect positively: everyone not in the previous group who wants to live in Boulder
almost 2 years ago
Put all the puzzle pieces together
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.
almost 2 years ago
Occupancy limits should be determined by bedrooms and parking available, not by address.
Related parties have an advantage over Singles. A single person is treated that same as a family of any size.
almost 2 years ago
Legalize tiny homes!
The city forces people to own or rent an extravagant amount of space - except with the lucky few new coops that have been allowed for about a year. Just as the coop ordinance mandates 200 square feet per person or more, tiny homes of 200 square feet or more should be allowed. If we're serious about stopping climate change and making housing affordable we will start with this. Council member Jill Grano says six of her friends wanted to build tiny homes on a lot in North Boulder. They were not allowed and instead a couple that is their only half-time has a 6000 square foot house there! The Plains Indians that used to live here considered a 300 square foot tape you to be permanent living for four people. That's 75 square feet per person.
