NKY has more people than homes. Now what? Let’s talk about it.
Join us for our next Community Conversation on June 12, which delves into some of the solutions that leaders across the region have tried and how other people can put these ideas into place in their own communities.
Solving NKY’S housing shortage
Building community can help build housing
Zoning. Affordable Housing. Adaptive reuse. Alternative funding.
These are all ways that organizations, companies and people across Northern Kentucky are working to find a way to fill the need for more than 6,600 housing units in the region in the next five years.
There’s one thing, though, that anyone can do to begin creating an environment that allows enough housing for everyone, according to Covington residents Scott Banford and Melissa Kelley. That one thing is a cultural shift to embrace living among people who are different from them, including people with different income levels.
“We need more buy-in from people around the community.”
Keep reading to learn about some of the solutions we looked into around NKY’s housing shortage.
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NKY’s housing shortage:
What can we do about it?
