City staff present five housing innovations from Bloomberg‑Harvard leadership program

Holly Henderson, a Housing and Human Services (HHS) project lead, told the Housing Advisory Board on Sept. 24 that staff took part in a year‑long Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative and used the program’s prescribed innovation path to research and prototype ideas to address Boulder’s housing challenges. “We were engaged with it for about 9 months,” Henderson said. The work produced seven research insights and more than 800 community ideas, Henderson said. HHS narrowed those ideas to 10 initiatives and prototyped two: allowing more height in some places (to test whether taller, different designs would broaden housing options) and a concept to convert single‑family homes as older homeowners transition out of those properties. Henderson said HHS distilled the process into a five‑item portfolio the department plans to advance: (1)…