The PC team presented our findings of the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) for the Town of Ridgway and Ouray County in November 2025. The comprehensive HNA is designed to meet all DOLA guidance and SB24-174 requirements but go beyond them as well. Addressing issues faced by Rural Resort Communities is a challenge and requires […]
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The City of Rifle, Colorado, and the PC team began work on a housing needs assessment and zoning code update in July 2024. In alignment with Strong Communities grant best practices, the goal of the project is to provide actionable recommendations for code updates that support the development of affordable housing. Our team conducted a
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In October 2024, PC began working with the City of Bisbee, AZ, on a housing study designed to inform city policy and guide the upcoming Comprehensive Plan Update. The project included extensive data collection and community engagement, with outreach efforts such as a bilingual housing survey (English and Spanish) that achieved a response rate of
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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
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
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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
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November 5, 2024 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,
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November 4, 2024 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
San Juan County, Utah, worked with PC to complete a housing needs assessment for the region that provided updated information on affordable workforce housing and employment needs/statistics. The project required data collection on future needs for the entire county while simultaneously keeping in mind its individual communities, such as Blanding, Monticello, and the various towns