Identified Goals:

• Establish county-wide housing authority to address rental issues, codes, standards and enforcement opportunities

• Upgrade existing aged and uninhabitable homes

• Add affordable low and medium cost housing

• Improve first impressions and curb appeal

• Remove eyesores 

• Enhance and add quality and affordability of rentals 

• Expand neighborhood sidewalk rehab program

• Address Almena’s need for housing

• Design loft apartments over downtown businesses

• Organize housing investment group

• Build condos/townhouses

• Increase housing stock

• Capitalize on empty lots

• Education opportunities for available housing

• Boost neighborhood watch programs

• Implement and enforce housing and zoning laws

 

Grants Given Totaling $10,000:

• Norton City/County Economic Development received a grant in 2019 to conduct a housing study in Norton County.  

 

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