Tiny houses, workforce dorms among other communities’ housing remedies

Julie Smith/News Tribune
Jeff Lubbell was one of several speakers at Thursday's annual Housing Conference at Capital West Event Center. The event was open to the public and involved a number of representatives of local non-profit agencies, realtors, elected officials and many more. The goal is to find solutions to housing and related issues. Speakers talked about ideas and implentations in other communities, how they worked or didn't work and what changes could help those ideas succeed.
Julie Smith/News Tribune Jeff Lubbell was one of several speakers at Thursday's annual Housing Conference at Capital West Event Center. The event was open to the public and involved a number of representatives of local non-profit agencies, realtors, elected officials and many more. The goal is to find solutions to housing and related issues. Speakers talked about ideas and implentations in other communities, how they worked or didn't work and what changes could help those ideas succeed.

Jefferson City isn't unique in its housing struggles.

But there are plenty of lessons it can learn from other communities that have taken innovative approaches.

Bryan Stallings, founder and CEO of Elevate Branson, said his nonprofit's approach was to construct one of the largest tiny home communities in the nation, complete with...

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