The Ada County Commission on Tuesday unanimously declined to extend financial support to the city of Boise to help house extra Interfaith Sanctuary guests in hotels. READ MORE HERE.
The City of Boise’s Zoning Code Rewrite is in its final stages. If you don’t know, a zoning code is how new buildings and developments are planned and approved. City leaders say this rewrite will help create a modern city for everyone, but critics say it will only bulldoze old neighborhoods to put up cramped apartments.…
The City of Boise presented information at the Homeless Coalition’s March 8th meeting about its proposed Modern Zoning Code and the inclusion of affordable units in various zones. View slides from their presentation HERE. Comments can be submitted to zongingrewrite@cityofboise.org and more information can be found on the city’s website HERE.
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If you’re a renter in Idaho, you’re less protected from fees than if you leased a storage unit. In some cases, people have to pay $500 dollars for being one day late on rent. State Senator Ali Rabe wants to change that. Listen to a March 6 interview between Senator Ali Rabe and journalist Emma…
Do you have questions about affordable housing? Every year, the National Low Income Housing Coalition publishes the Advocates’ Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy to educate advocates of all kinds about the programs and policies that make housing affordable to low-income people across America. All of us can effectively advocate for housing programs with our…
A ruthless effort to criminalize homelessness while attacking best practices like Housing First is gaining traction in state legislatures across the country. Several states have already enacted bills along these lines, including Texas, Tennessee, and Missouri. Other states like Arizona and Georgia managed to fend off bad legislation last year, but new proposals are being…
“A sweep has a cost that day and can have longer-term cost in terms of [eliminating] whatever stability the people living in the encampments were able to attain,” said one homelessness policy expert. READ MORE: Homeless encampment sweeps costly and of limited long-term effectiveness, according to federal research | Smart Cities Dive