Affordable Housing

In this week's edition of the "Northwest Arkansas Business Journal," Roby Brock talks to Casey Kleinhenz, Community Development Northwest Arkansas’ executive director, about a $17 million mixed-income apartment development near in Springdale.

There’s no grand solution to affordable housing. At least that’s what John Folan will tell you. But through his work as the head of the Department of Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, he’s doing his part to come up with at least a solution.

The average cost of a home in Bentonville is $450,000, pricing many teachers out of the district they work for. So the school district is trying a new concept: provide the housing themselves.

Hope 9:29 broke ground in Harrison to create a new community space, a call center, and an affordable housing development.

Today on The Outline: a new director of tourism for the state of Arkansas. Also, celebrating two years of providing bridge housing with New Beginnings.

New Beginnings – with the mission to serve our community for the benefit of the under-resourced and vulnerable – will celebrate its second year with an event October 22.

Today on The Outline: Fayetteville City Council voted unanimously to approve more than a million dollars in funding to 7hills Homeless Center. Also, Mercy Hospital Northwest and Mercy Fort Smith are joining with more than 30 other hospitals in the state to form the Arkansas Perinatal Quality Collaborative. Plus, prescription fills of the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone have tripled in the state.

This week’s episode of the podcast “I Am Northwest Arkansas” focuses on creating affordable housing. Host Randy Wilburn talked with Mark Conine, the president of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. Among the topics of discussion are proposed alterations in city zoning to require more affordable housing, including one concept called “inclusionary zoning.”

On today's show, a proposed amendment in Arkansas to remove sales tax for period products. Also, considering what the Ozarks have been, are and might become. Plus, Bonnie Montgomery has country and roots music in her soul, but she’s long loved other music too.

Carolyn Gordon, the director of affiliate expansion for Family Promise, met with people in northwest Arkansas interested in bringing their work to the region.