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Council hears updated housing needs assessment calling for more varied, affordable units
Summary
Planner Ethan Wherry presented a 2025 housing needs assessment to the Boone City Council showing low rental vacancy, an aging housing stock and a need for several hundred additional units; recommendations included zoning changes, preapproved designs, and use of incentives and partnerships.
Ethan Wherry, a planner with the Mid Iowa Planning Alliance, presented an updated 2025 housing needs assessment to the Boone City Council, outlining a tight rental market, an aging housing stock and strategies for increasing affordable and workforce housing.
Wherry said the study drew on data from the Boone County assessor, the City of Boone, the U.S. Census Bureau, the American Community Survey and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and was intended “to be a guide for you, city council, and community leaders, stakeholders, and professional developers, that want to come to Boone to look for housing, building opportunities.”
The assessment found a very low rental vacancy rate of 1.1%; 77% of occupied units are detached single-family homes and 74% are…
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