Mickey Garcia Stands up for Community Housing
“I Stand Up For Community Housing” – Mickey Garcia, Candidate for Blaine County Commissioner In an October 2016 article posted by Magicvalley.com, Mickey Garcia, a candidate for Blaine County Commissioner, expressed interest in tackling the issues faced by Blaine County residents. One of these issues, as you may have guessed is our problem with affordable […]
Alec England and Kayla Hanson Stand Up For Community Housing
I Stand Up For Community Housing I (Alec) have grown up in a handful of places, but the Wood River Valley has always been “home” to me. After graduating from Boise State University, my plan was to come back to the valley with my girlfriend, Kayla, and begin working at at our upcoming jobs. But while […]
Walt Femling Stands up for Community Housing
I Stand Up For Community Housing Walt Femling, Sun Valley Chief of Police “Professional Emergency Services play an important part in the reputation, economic growth, development and stability of our city and county. Over the last 25 years I have watched too many of our key first responders leave because of the lack of affordable housing.”- Walt Femling, Sun Valley […]
Peter Hendricks Stands Up For Community Housing
I stand up for Community Housing Peter Hendricks, Mayor of Sun Valley “Affordable community housing is critical for attracting and retaining the first-rate law enforcement, fire protection and general city service employees on whom our citizens depend.” Born in Brooklyn and raised in Long Island, N.Y., Hendricks graduated from the University of Notre Dame and spent his career working in investing […]
Affordable Housing, Do we have the will? – Eye on Sun Valley Article.
STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK John Sofro studied the 250 movers and shakers gathered in the Limelight Room of the Sun Valley Inn. Then he lowered the boom. “There is a solution to the problems we’re talking about,” he addressed those who had come together to talk about affording housing for low and middle-income […]
Housing for Workers is Non-Negotiable, Consultant Says
Housing for Workers is Non-Negotiable, Consultant Says Great Read Karen and Great Summit SVED STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK With 700 new jobs projected for Blaine County in the next five years, the housing problem is only going to become more severe if nothing is done. Especially since 70 percent of those new jobs […]
Dick Fenton Stands Up for Community Housing
I stand up for Community Housing “As an area Realtor for over 30 years, I understand the importance of housing affordability to the health of the economy and the overall real estate market. Homes priced affordably for a significant portion of our work force are difficult to provide without the work of housing advocates in […]
Blaine residents face ‘housing burden’ – Mountain Express
Posted by www.mexpress.com on Sep 28, 2016 by Ryan Thorne Gretchen Stinnett, a single mother of three, has felt frustrated trying to find affordable, adequate housing in Blaine County. “It really became an issue when my husband and I got a divorce,” she said. “I lost my house because one income could not support that kind […]
Working his A$$ off
Working and living in the community in which you serve is vital to a thriving economy. The average salary of a starting firefighter in Blaine County is $43,115 per year. The median sales price of a Blaine County, single family home is $425,000. This disparity makes it nearly impossible for the people who serve our […]
2016 Economic Summit to Focus on Housing
2016 Economic Summit to Focus on Housing For the original Eye on Sun Valley article written by Karen Bossick, click here. Sun Valley Economic Development’s 2016 Economic Summit will focus on affordable housing in the Wood River Valley. The summit, titled “The Intersection of Housing and Talent Attraction in Our Economy”, will feature three panels that […]