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Story County reviews decades of housing work and recent implementation steps
Summary
County staff reviewed 30 years of planning that led to a 2022 Housing Action Plan, ARPA-funded implementation contracts and a recent memorandum of understanding to run a weatherization program through the Story County Housing Trust.
Story County supervisors met July 7 for a housing work session that reviewed the county’s housing planning history and recent steps to implement its Housing Action Plan.
Leanne Harter, Story County planning and development director, summarized more than three decades of county housing work and said county policy shifted in the 2010s to treat housing as part of economic development. “It was acknowledging the role is of the board as necessary and then also acknowledging that housing is a component of economic development,” Harter said.
The county described the sequence that led to current implementation work: a county development plan adopted in 1993; an Ames–Story County housing needs assessment in 1998 and a resulting 28E partnership; the C2C…
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