The City Council has been a strong defender of LCDC and their focus on promoting high-end luxury living units rather than career-level job creation like many other urban renewal agencies in our state. Councilman Mike Kennedy was recently quoted in the Press saying of the affordable housing problem, "It's an issue people are talking about all over the community, and the city also has a disadvantage. Our growth has been so colossal, so quick we feel we're behind the 8-ball on it right now." Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the City Council finally took action on the issue of affordable housing in our community last Friday… They had yet another panel discussion on the subject -- Mary Souza/City Pulse, Coeur d'Alene Press.
DFO: Mary Souza makes a good point here. We've given a lot of lip service to "affordable housing." But nothing has happened. Meanwhile, lower- and middle-income families are looking for truly affordable housing farther and farther from he waterfront.
Question: What can Coeur d'Alene do to provide affordable housing for the non-got-rocks crowd?
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
level job creation like many other urban renewal agencies in our state. Councilman Mike Kennedy was recently quoted in the Press saying of the affordable housing problem, "It's an issue people are talking about all over the community, and the city also has a disadvantage. Our growth has been so colossal, so quick we feel we're behind the 8-ball on it right now." Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the City Council finally took action on the issue of affordable housing in our community last Friday… They had yet another panel discussion on the subject -- Mary Souza/City Pulse, Coeur d'Alene Press.
