Idaho Developer aims to build truly affordable housing for all.

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Dakota Worrell, a young developer with a passion for creating affordable housing has been buying and rehabbing old apartments to meet the need for affordable housing in Pocatello, ID. Now his is starting to build small affordable homes on city infill lots with the hopes of keeping housing costs to $600/month.

The article describes some of the challenges he faces in accomplishing those goals, but he is determined to make it happen.

God bless this young man!


https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/big-vision-for-tiny-homes-pocatello-developer-aims-to-make-having-a-house-affordable-to/article_2925449a-d36f-5915-a175-62b6198b1fef.html

[niyad]

1. KNR

[we can do it]

2. Nice if you want to live in red hell.

[Thunderbeast]

4. A very good friend of mine lives in Emmett, Idaho

Her house is across the street from the Mormon Stake House where Ammon Bundy worships. She, and other Democrats make as much noise as they can in local elections. Idaho has not always been defined by the "American Redout".

It was the home of America's largest socialist workers revolt and I.W.W. power.

Democrats like Cecil Andrus and Frank Church were popular...even in this state dominated by Evangelical and Mormon influence.

While my friend and her fellow Democrats seem to be tilting at windmills, they have hopes that sanity can someday return.

Idaho is a beautiful place. The Salmon, Snake, and Selway rivers hold no political bias.

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5. The fact that this young man is building affordable housing gives me hope.

There are good souls everywhere, even in red states.

As Mr. Rogers would say, "Look for the helpers".

[jmowreader]

7. My grandfather ran the United Mine Workers hall in Kellogg for several years

Then the railroad Union made him an offer he couldn’t refuse: work for us, we’ll pay you twice as much and you can live in Bonners Ferry, which isn’t nearly as contaminated with lead. So he ran the railroad Union in BF for many years.

One of the benefits of working for the railroad was that the Great Northern bought a shitload of paint, and once a year they would allow every worker to take a five gallon can home to paint his house. There was a catch: the Great Northern used four colors of paint, orange, black, gray and white. They knew no one would want an orange or black house, so in even years you could have white paint and in odd years gray. So…unless you wanted a gray house you painted in even years. Since coal and fuel oil were the only two heating fuels in Bonners Ferry you really needed to paint your house every two years.

And then we started importing California Republicans and the whole place went to shit.

[hunter]

6. The fascists bought the media and churches.

The churches were cheap. All the fascists had to do was promise they'd ignore civil rights issues and allow these churches to carry on with their misogyny, racism, child abuse, persecutions of LBGQT people, etc..