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Denver launches Vibrant Bonds dashboard, details $45 million set aside for affordable housing development
Summary
City officials unveiled a public dashboard for the Vibrant Denver bond program and described a $45,000,000 allocation aimed at supporting 5–7 affordable housing site improvements or acquisitions with long‑term affordability requirements; staff described engagement buckets and a multi‑step review and RFP process.
Patrick Bridal, Vibrant Denver bond program manager, told the Denver Mayor and City Council the program's new public dashboard went live during the March 31 meeting and is intended to make project locations, budgets and phases easy for residents to track. "We made a commitment to have a public dashboard by the end of Q1 ... and we're ready to go live today," Bridal said.
Why it matters: The dashboard centralizes bond project information and is designed to show project purposes, budgets, maps and phase timing so residents and council members can see when design or construction is expected to start. The city said the tool will display linear projects as lines, and point projects as dots, with increasing date granularity as projects approach construction.
Details of the affordable housing allocation: Molly Scarborough, co‑program manager for Vibrant Denver, said the bond program set aside $45,000,000 for affordable housing project development, targeting investment in roughly 5 to 7 properties for site…
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