Housing Committee
Creating Workforce Housing Solutions
The City of Huntington, Huntington County, and the Huntington County Community Foundation have engaged the Housing Resource Hub (The Hub) to develop and implement a dynamic housing strategy tailored to the needs of the workforce.
Now is the time to address housing needs in our community. We continue to hear from employers, both large and small, that a lack of suitable housing is preventing them from attracting and retaining workers.
Rob Miller — Huntington County Commissioner
The Housing Strategy
The Housing Strategy includes measuring local market potential, prioritizing sites for catalyst housing developments, and launching a community-wide housing initiative to address the needs of the local workforce through partnerships with local employers, banks, lenders, realtors, developers, and builders.
The Hub will facilitate the Housing Strategy using a proprietary methodology developed by the organization’s co-founder, Heather Presley-Cowen.
The Housing Optimization Market Empowerment (HOME) Method is a framework for executing high-performance housing strategies and focuses on the following:
