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Chaffee Housing Authority outlines 2025 priorities: housing needs assessment, acquisitions and mobile‑home preservation
Summary
Marjo Kyrgass, interim executive director of the Chaffee Housing Authority, briefed the Buena Vista Board of Trustees on Jan. 14 about 2025 priorities including a state‑driven housing needs assessment, active acquisitions and preservation work for mobile‑home parks.
Marjo Kyrgass, interim executive director of the Chaffee Housing Authority, briefed the Town of Buena Vista Board of Trustees on Jan. 14 about the authority's 2025 priorities, current projects and financing constraints facing mountain communities.
"We do have a grant from Dolan to do that," Kyrgass said of the planned housing needs assessment. She described the assessment as necessary to comply with new state methodology and to preserve eligibility for major state funding pools.
Kyrgass reviewed several active projects. James Place, a signature CHA project that includes 17 housing units and some commercial space, is back in construction and expected to finish late 2025 or early 2026; construction for that project was described as roughly $5.5 million. The authority also completed acquisition of its first rental property — a 19‑unit building in Salida — purchased for roughly $4 million, which…
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