‘We all fall down:’ RTD’s first-ever homeless outreach manager makes his rounds
- Date: 04/22/2024
Alton Reynolds begins his shift at Civic Center Union Station nearly every morning. Reynolds is the Regional Transportation District’s (RTD)…
Producing more affordable housing is one solution, says Schwartz, but doing so is a challenge in any urban environment for a variety of reasons. Ramping up production in the affordable sector is a place to start, but producing more homes in all housing types is the ultimate solution. “But you need to drill down how to make that happen,” he says. “I think [it all] boils down to creating public/private partnerships that produce housing, and the volume necessary that meets the criteria—those are essential to making that work.”
One example of a good public/private partnership is The Exchange, a Domain Companies project which utilized tax-exempt bonds and housing tax credits. “We worked with the state to make those programs work in a way that we were more friendly to mixed-income,” says Schwartz.
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