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The Prescott Workforce Housing Committee in conjunction with City Staff are preparing a Needs Assessment that will address the need for affordable housing in Prescott. As part of the Assessment, an online survey will be conducted of persons who reside or work in the City to better understand the need for affordable housing and where it might be found today in the region. All responses will be kept strictly confidential and individual responses will not be revealed to any employer or business.
To take the survey go to ParticipatePrescott.
The Prescott Workforce Housing Committee was established in 2022 to address concerns about the availability and accessibility of housing for service employees in the community, such as police, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and other professions that are critical to a community’s functioning. The committee is comprised of local stakeholders and industry experts and is working on short- and long-term goals to address availability and accessibility of workforce housing in Prescott. To better engage the community and share important messages related to the Committee’s work, a communication and community outreach plan has been established
4 thoughts on “The City of Prescott Launches Housing Needs Assessment – Citizens Invited to Take Online Survey”
First, Since the Covid – Biden era, labor and materials have shot up 30-40%. Only reducing development fees or buy downs on the property and interest rates will reduce the cost of a home. With no real “interior upgrades” there can be savings.
I might consider that under President Trump we will see a reduction in interest rates in 2-3 years making a variable rate mortgage another option. PV and Prescott have discussed affordable housing for the workforce but that should include all working people not just first responders or school teachers.
Are we headed for “company housing” Ala the 1900 coal mining companies? Give us a reason that the taxpayers need to foot this? I know of a Colorado Ski resort that bought out the investors and built employee housing.
Supply and demand, including materials, impact fees and land costs will always dictate the cost of housing in Prescott. Waving a wand and stressing the need for affordable housing will not make it a reality. I recall one of the arguments in favor of the overly small, dense lots in Deepwell Ranch was the need for “affordable housing” which would be accomplished with small lots. That turned out to be a bad joke. After the initial building in some of the earlier developments, sales prices and rents shot up through the roof to obscene levels anyway, as demand outstripped the supply of new homes. Flagstaff has bellyached for decades about the need for affordable housing, and they have the highest home prices in the state.
What happened to the deep well ranch subdivision being “affordable” that’s how it was sold to the city along with it being self sustaining…. Neither happened!
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