The next generation of the city of Aspen’s affordable housing plans is becoming clearer, and Aspen voters will be asked to affirm those plans with a $100 million bond and the renewal of two housing taxes at the ballot box in November.
Aspen City Council will provide direction on a number of points at a work session on Tuesday. But Chris Everson, the city’s affordable housing project manager since Jan. 28, has crafted a financing strategy he thinks will work, and it does not include building housing on three of the city’s four recent land acquisitions, including the BMC West site, right away.
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