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Alamosa candidates outline housing strategies: housing study, new builds and caps on short‑term rentals
Summary
At the forum candidates and the mayor described multiple ongoing housing projects, emphasized a shortage of middle‑income units and discussed tools from grants to zoning and short‑term rental caps to expand and preserve housing.
Candidates at the Meet the Candidates forum described a multi‑pronged effort to address Alamosa’s housing shortage, citing city studies, new developments and regulatory tools as possible solutions.
Mayor Ty Coleman said the city previously commissioned a housing assessment that showed the community was “several 100 houses short,” and he credited multiyear work with developers and funders to increase supply. “We’ve been working with different funding sources,” Coleman said, and he described multifamily developments and subdivisions under way as part of a multi‑year plan.
Jan Vigil (incumbent at‑large councilor) and…
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