Counties for Housing Solutions
Author
Patrick Spence
Housing is a key component of economic mobility, yet continues to be a challenge for many residents. NACo’s Counties for Housing Solutions (C4HS) program offers free three-month technical assistance sprints to address this challenge by helping counties increase local housing supply. In partnership with Smart Growth America, these sprints are designed to be high-intensity and implementation-focused and will draw upon recommendations made by NACo’s 2023 Housing Task Force.
Selected county teams will work through a step-by-step plan to:
- Identify available land
- Evaluate site selection
- Plan community engagement activities
- Partner with potential developers, and
- Identify financing for affordable housing development on underdeveloped land.
About Counties for Housing Solutions
NACo has selected seven counties’ to develop underutilized, county-owned land as affordable housing.
Counties participating in the second sprint include:
- Baltimore City, Md.
- Chesterfield County, Va.
- Genessee County, Mich.
- Honolulu County, Hawaii
- New Hampshire County Consortium (Counties of Cheshire, Grafton, and Sullivan)
- Pierce County, Wa.
Future sprints in late 2025 will help additional counties benefit from the recommendations of the Housing Task Force.
Counties for Housing Solutions is part of Counties for Economic Mobility, a National Association of Counties initiative for county leaders to advance equitable upward economic mobility to move individuals and families out of poverty. Counties for Economic Mobility supports a range of activities to drive data-driven and community-informed policymaking in county government.
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