I have been reading ‘Concerns About the Town’s Workforce Housing Plans’, what Servitas is proposing, and the misalignment with Pagosa Springs’ Area Median Income (AIM) Target Renter Profile.
I don’t get it.
75% of the one-bedroom units are affordable only to households making in excess of $66,000. Up to $2,591 per month for a one-bedroom (‘workforce housing’) unit is per se unaffordable.
Why is Town Staff trying to “Boil the Ocean”, and hire the same architects (page 96 and page 98 of the agenda brief) who were hired to design Bootjack Ranch, and the Village at Wolf Creek? You can download the agenda brief about the Servitas housing project here.
Other Archuleta communities have taken a much more rapid, and financially conservative approaches like deploying factory-built modular housing (example: IndieDwell based in Pueblo, CO), or establishing Tiny Home Communities (example: Hermosa Orchards).
See: Writers on the Range – When no home is affordable, where do you live?
Am I missing something here… that a student housing firm (based in Dallas, Texas) is out of touch with the core requirements for getting (quickly) as many fire fighters, teachers, nurses, retail store staff, police officers, young families, and other key members of the Pagosa Springs workforce into safe and affordable housing?
Hank Lydick
Pagosa Springs, CO
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