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Idaho’s booming economy is a success story, but a pressing question looms: Where will our workers live? The 2025 Idaho Workforce Housing Index (IWHI), released by Points Consulting in partnership with LEAP Housing, uncovers the state’s housing affordability crisis with hard-hitting data and actionable insights. Our groundbreaking report ranks 147 Idaho cities, spotlighting “hot spots”

Our team presented our Housing Needs Assessment for the Moline, Rock Island, & Davenport Consortium of Cities (the Tri-Cities) in January 2025. We partnered with Mosaic Community Planning for this project, and PC simultaneously helped Mosaic to perform an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. Both projects were designed to fully meet all HUD

Following the Goal 9: Economic Development & Employment Lands Assessment conducted in 2023, Points Consulting and Nexus Planning Services contracted again with the City of La Grande to complete Goal 14 of the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development’s planning structure. Our objective was to find the most suitable locations for an Urban Growth

PC completed a feasibility study for a development site in Tekoa, WA owned by the Port of Whitman County. The Port is targeting heavy industrial and manufacturing businesses to commit to the future Tekoa Industrial Park Site in an attempt to help decrease the county’s reliance on agriculture in the area, which employs over six-fold

PC contracted with LEAP Housing in October of 2024 to conduct a feasibility for a prospective 48-unit development under consideration in Lava Hot Springs, which would be called Portneuf Springs. More specifically, this project assesses the absorption potential for the units considering affordability and availability factors within the local market. The development would be primarily

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde (CTGR) engaged PC to complete a housing study & needs assessment forecasting housing demand in the region 20 years into the future. The team conducted both a ‘status quo’ and ‘optimistic’ housing needs forecast to account for the effect of different population growth trajectories on future housing demand. These

In November 2024, the PC team completed a feasibility study for an underutilized 64-acre industrial site owned by the Port of Arlington (OR). Though it is currently a gravel quarry, our team provided insight as to whether regional economic and community support is strong enough to sustain a mixed-use, industrial site that complements current key

The Southwest Missouri Council of Governments (SMCOG) worked with PC to complete a Housing Analysis for Greene County, Missouri, focused on the County’s unincorporated land and more rural towns of Ash Grove, Fair Grove and Walnut Grove (or “The Groves”). Our study found The Groves’ large amount of property available for in-fill, redevelopment, or city

PC contracted with the Nimiipuu Community Development Fund (NCDF) based out of Lapwai, Idaho to provide a Housing Study and Needs Assessment for the Nez Perce Reservation. For the assessment, our team forecasted both the total population change on the Reservation over the next twenty years as well as the number of individuals within the