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APCHA presents strategic-plan update and community survey; commissioners press for clearer goals and risk framing
Summary
The Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority (APCHA) presented a community-informed strategic-planning update and survey findings showing tensions between supply, equity and accountability; commissioners asked for clearer, fewer goals, more risk analysis and a staffing needs assessment.
APCHA staff and board representatives presented a five-year strategic-plan update and community-survey results to the Pitkin County Board of County Commissioners during a Feb. 11 work session focused on the housing authority’s upcoming strategic-planning retreat.
Matthew Gillen, executive director of APCHA, and board representative Francie Jacoba reviewed survey data compiled by facilitator John Doherty and staff member Hannah Hunt. The results highlighted persistent community tension about APCHA’s role: priorities ranged from increasing unit supply to preserving deed restrictions, and respondents expressed concern about accountability, transparency and the organization’s capacity to enforce program rules.
Hannah Hunt, the county’s senior long-range planner, walked commissioners through demographic…
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