STATE COMMITTEE HEARS POTENTIAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOLUTIONS IN SANDPOINT
by JACK FREEMAN
Bonner County Daily Bee Staff Writer | August 16, 2025
SANDPOINT — The state Land Use and Housing Study Committee met in the Sandpoint City Council chambers to hear and discuss potential solutions to the affordable housing crisis in Idaho.
This was the third meeting of the special committee and focused on groups from North Idaho pitching their ideas and local solutions they’ve done to help create more affordable housing. The meeting was the last of the “information gathering” phase of the committee, which will now break into four work groups to help tackle individual parts of the crisis for the upcoming Idaho legislative session.
"I think it was very successful,” Jim Woodward, State Senator and co-Chair of the committee said. “With all those morning presentations we got some really good input from different approaches that have been taken to put affordable housing on the market, making sure that the people who are working in the area can afford to stay in there.”
