2024 Summer Newsletter
What We’ve Been Up To This Year Community Collaboration makes it happen Partnerships are the key! We understand that solving Blaine County’s housing crisis requires more than just us—it takes a dedicated network of like-minded organizations and individuals. That’s why we constantly work toward establishing new ways to collaborate with our local community. Here are […]
2023 Summer Newsletter
What We’ve Been Up To This Year Blaine County School District Units:In 2022 we received our second generous million-dollar match from Jeanne Herberger. Jeanne matched 50 cents for every $1 donated, and with your help, this summer we were able to close out the match by reaching our $3 million goal. The money raised has […]
2022 Summer Newsletter
What We’ve Been Up To This Year ARCH continues to utilize federal housing dollars in order to serve a large part of our community. However, these funds have limitations. Rental income can only be 60% or less than the Area Median Income (AMI) Ownership is limited to 80% or less of AMI These programs do […]
2024 Annual Report
The ARCH 2024 Annual Report is now available! Dear Friends, Thanks to all of you, ARCH continues to house the workforce upon which we all depend. This year critical Blaine County School District employees moved into housing dedicated to district employees. The Sunbeam homes which were funded with ARPA funds from Blaine County, our first […]
2023 Annual Report
The ARCH 2023 Annual Report is now available! Dear Friends, On behalf of our board and staff, I want to express our gratitude to all of you for supporting ARCH and our community. Your contributions have made workforce housing a reality through events like our annual “Raise the Roof” fundraiser and the recent “Art and […]
2022 Annual Report
The ARCH 2022 Annual Report is now available! Dear Friends, Thanks to your unprecedented generosity, ARCH has had another incredibly successful year. In addition to our federally funded home development, we have made great strides toward housing our workforce through partnerships. St. Lukeís Wood River is welcoming its first employees into homes, the Blaine County […]
2021 Annual Report
The ARCH 2021 Annual Report is now available! Enjoy a letter of appreciation from our executive director, as well as an overview of how ARCH is breaking ground, building homes, standing up for housing, and supporting our community. Download 2021 Annual Report
2020 Annual Report
The ARCH 2020 Annual Report is now available! Enjoy a letter of appreciation from our executive director, as well as an overview of how ARCH is breaking ground, building homes, standing up for housing, and supporting our community. Download 2020 Annual Report
Every Friday $2.2 Million in paychecks drive away from the county and our economy.
In order to enhance the social fabric of our community people must live and work in the same area. Those who do make an “investment” in their community by attending social events, frequenting restaurants, volunteering at their children’s schools, shopping locally and supporting charitable causes. In 2014, the State of Idaho reported that over 3800 […]
COMMUNITY HOUSING: It’s a balancing act.
One might argue that Community Housing programs are unnecessary. ” Let the free market forces level the playing field; do not engage in social engineering,” is the cry heard most often. The problem with that point of view is that in order for the fee market to address the problem, wages, and therefore prices of […]
