Housing Resources
The City of Alamosa commissioned a Housing Needs Assessment and Action Plan to understand current housing conditions, and work towards solutions to address the housing challenges that people in the community are facing. The assessment took a comprehensive look at current housing conditions and the factors that are shaping the housing market. From that assessment, the Action Plan that focuses on solutions was created.
For the past several years, the City of Alamosa has been investing into plans and strategies to help inform policies and goals in order to promote economic development, quality residential growth, and general improvements for the protection of the quality of life for the city’s residents and businesses. In 2017, the City of Alamosa completed the Comprehensive Plan, which resulted in the new Unified Development Code and spawned the Downtown Plan. While these plans addressed the need for housing as it relates to economic development, and there is broad agreement that the issue should be addressed, since no specific strategy currently exists. The City of Alamosa has not historically played a role in housing and is currently working on developing this expertise. Therefore, this assessment and plan are extremely important to guide the City’s priorities moving forward.
The City of Alamosa commissioned a Housing Needs Assessment and Action Plan in 2020 to understand current housing conditions and work towards solutions to address the housing challenges that people in the community are facing. The first part, the Assessment, takes a comprehensive look at current housing conditions and the factors that are shaping the housing market, such as demographics, the economy, and the housing market. Other insight was gained by an employer and stakeholder survey. The Assessment was completed in January 2021.
The next phase of the work is the Action Plan, which will focus on solutions. With an array of potential actions, the best strategies to address the Housing Needs Assessment findings and community priorities as identified through public survey responses will be compiled into a toolkit. The final action plan will include the housing toolkit, potential implementation strategies and the top 10 action steps in order to address housing shortfalls.
Housing Committee
- Ty Coleman
- Delzia Worley
- Andrew Atchley
- Heather Brooks
- Callie Adams
- Dawn Melgares
- Jeff Owsley
- Lisa Lucero
- Rachel Baird
- Anna David
- Deacon Aspinwall
While the City and its partners are working on putting the action plan into motion, there are resources within these pages for those who might find them beneficial.
