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97% apartment occupancy, economic growth adds to need for affordable housing

June 23, 2022
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ABILENE Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – The soaring selling price of hire for Significant region Inhabitants tells a story of provide and demand from customers. It’s a story set into words by Brenda Huffity, of Weidner Apartment properties, at the city’s Organizing and Zoning meeting at the beginning of June.

“Abilene is currently 97% occupied in flats and 99% leased,” Huffity knowledgeable. “There is a waiting around list for housing at this point.”

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All throughout the social scale, dwelling buyers and renters seem to be at an Deadlock.

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“[It’s] since of the home rates and product expenditures to develop residences. So, a whole lot of people are delaying household purchases and receiving into the rental industry,” reported Gene Reed, CEO of Abilene Housing Authority.

This influx of residents to rental houses is what has driven prices upwards, and brought on bleak levels of competition for extensive-time renters.

“We have just about 3,000 people on our ready checklist correct now,” Reed reported, “waiting to get into an cost-effective housing software.”

But it is not just the affordable housing marketplace that is emotion the sting.

“A 1 bed room [apartment] is $1,122, a two bedroom $1,283 and a a few bedroom $1,392,” Huffity stated.

In the eyes of developers like Weidner, the answer is crystal clear: More housing is essential.

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“If we never construct a lot more offer, we can not handle the demand,” claimed Huffity.

A person of Weidner’s proposed complexes would be developed just off Memorial drive, sharing the street with a range of single-family neighborhoods. It is land presently zoned for business use.

“Abilene does want a lot more housing, I agree,” explained Jimmy Boulware, resident at Legacy Village. “That space is zoned for retail and business use, not multi-relatives.”

Boulware and a coalition of close by neighborhoods showed up to the June 7 meeting in complete force, requesting that the land could continue being business.

“If they do want to change the zoning to multi spouse and children, make it single-family members townhouse to where it blends in,” Boulware imagined, “why appear in and set a sore thumb in the center of a great community?”

Privacy, safety, and highway infrastructure appear to be to the the most important issues people are having with the proposal fearing that a two or 3-story constructing would place residences at eye amount with their back again yards. People also expressed worry with the absence of targeted visitors management, crosswalks and in general walkability on Memorial drive.

“If I knew that they were likely to propose to make a multi-tale condominium complex behind my home I would not have bought this residence,” said Boulware.

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The vote to shift forward with rezoning the land passed five to 7, and will now go prior to City Council for a closing decision. Nevertheless Planning and Zoning did stipulate that boundaries should be added on the North and Memorial Drive sides of the intricate, and making top not exceed two tales.

The desire for flats in Abilene, having said that, is anticipated to worsen as the city’s escalating workforce appear for a put to call dwelling.

“A lot of professionals say we may well be listed here for another pair of years,” added Reed.



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