Tackling growth together

Cities, county, builders, employers and citizens unite to find housing solutions

There’s no silver bullet to fix the issues of growth and housing that face Kootenai County residents. “There’s not one thing,” Coeur d’Alene City Council member and affordable housing advocate Kiki Miller told a crowd this week. “There’s a bunch of different things we have to try to deploy.” Around 40 people gathered Thursday night at the Harding Family Center in Coeur d’Alene to hear a forum discussion focused on the role of cities, counties and builders presented by DART, a nonpartisan group.

Community mobilizing to address issue

The challenges faced by residents of manufactured and mobile home communities have been on the radar for more than a year for members of the Regional Housing and Growth Issues Partnership.

Partners tackle housing problems

Hope to help local workers, middle-income families

Regional housing solutions sought

Housing key for CDA council

Several members highlight need for affordable places to live

Housing key to CDA's future

Options emerge for local worker housing

Growth Partnership discusses strategies, market study and schools

Miller seeks re-election to CDA Council

Longtime community activist and business leader.

Housing — where it is, where it could be

Surveys could be heading your way

Surveys on housing could be heading your way

Preservation and planning on the prairie

Rathdrum Prairie takes center stage in third regional partnership meeting

Partnership pulling together support for housing assessment

The Regional Housing and Growth Issues Partnership is looking to gather data about the area's housing crisis.

Fight to save open space could include park-like package

The Regional Housing and Growth Partnership met for the next step in a long flight of stairs to solve growth issues.

Cd’A pens support for rights of armed citizens

A Friday afternoon letter signed by Mayor Steve Widmyer and the Coeur d'Alene City Council expressed support for the rights of armed citizens who have been patrolling downtown since Monday.