RHA 2024 Annual Report
The 2024 RHA Annual Report highlights a year of collaboration, strategic investment, and community-driven solutions aimed at addressing La Plata County’s workforce housing challenges. With a focus on sustainable funding, policy alignment, and regional partnerships, the RHA has made meaningful progress in advancing attainable housing solutions.
RHA 2024 Strategic Plan
The RHA 2024 Strategic Plan focuses on maximizing affordable housing creation in La Plata County. The plan emphasizes leveraging collaboration, political support, and existing infrastructure and identifies the following three strategic priorities:
- PROVIDE LEADERSHIP IN ATTAINING FUNDING
- POSITION TO LEVERAGE RESOURCES
- ALIGN LOCAL POLICIES WITH REGIONAL HOUSING GOALS
With these goals in mind, the RHA aims to serve as a hub for regional collaboration, address funding needs, elevate awareness, and enable public-private partnerships.
Workforce Housing Investment Strategy - Updated 2024
The La Plata County 3-Year Workforce Housing Investment Strategy was originally published in 2022. While significant achievements have been made in the last two years, updates to the strategy were made in 2024 to reflect the significant changes to the current funding environment.
RHA Action Plan
- Leadership
The RHA board established a goal of achieving political alignment from all four public entities and regularly reviewing any pertinent pending legislation. The board set goals to get elected officials out in front of the public and stakeholders for engagement through PSAs, news, and media.
- Staffing
The RHA board approved a scope of work, RFP & timeline for hiring a consultant to develop the structure of the RHA (priorities and staffing structure). The board identified the RHA’s ideal future as having a full administrative staff, led by an executive director.
- Funding
The RHA board agreed to track state and federal funding resources to ensure no funding opportunities are missed. The IGA between the four public entities establishes a percentage-based annual contribution for RHA operations. The RHA board set a goal of funding at least two projects per year.
- Development
The RHA board defined development goals as creating a funding/development checklist that is trackable, supporting two or more development projects per year, and focused outreach to developers.