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Fort Collins refines its affordable housing policies in light of these trends to ensure Fort Collins is a livable community for
all.
1.3 Short-Term and Long-Term Goals
The short-term goal for this plan is to ensure that by 2020, 6% of all housing units in Fort Collins will be comprised of
housing utilizing affordable housing programs. This goal represents an increase of one percentage point above the
current amount of affordable housing in Fort Collins. While a 1% increase may seem small, the number of units needed
to achieve this goal will require the City to bring a historic number of affordable units online in the next 5 years.
As of 2015, there are approximately 61,294 housing units in Fort Collins, of which 3,075 are affordable. On average, the
City of Fort Collins issues 1,100 building permits per year for housing units. Using this average building permit issuance
rate of 1,100 per year, Fort Collins will have approximately 66,915 housing units in 2020. In order to achieve the 6%
goal, Fort Collins will need to have 4,015 affordable housing units in 2020. This means the City needs to bring 940 more
affordable housing units online in the next 5 years, or 188 units per year to achieve the 6% goal. Given that the City saw
452 affordable housing units come online from 2010-2014, the City would need to double the rate of affordable housing
production in the coming 5 years to achieve the 6% goal. This is an ambitious goal but with the tools at the City’s
disposal, it is an attainable goal that will require coordination between the City and its partners.
Over the course of the next 25 years, the long-term goal identified in this plan is to increase the amount of affordable
housing units to 10% of the overall housing stock. That means that the amount of affordable housing units as a
percentage of the overall housing stock must increase one percentage point every five years. By using the same
assumptions as the short-term goal, this means that Fort Collins will have approximately 87,807 housing units by 2040.
To reach the 10% goal, 8,781 of the overall housing units in Fort Collins must be affordable by 2040. This requires that
5,706 affordable housing units will need to come online by 2040, which translates to an average of 228 units per year.
What this means is that for every 5-year plan between now and 2040, the City will have to increase the amount of
affordable housing by one percentage point as a ratio to the overall housing stock. This would represent a historically
high rate of affordable housing production (Figure 15).
2015-2019 AFFORDABLE HOUSING STRATEGIC PLAN 15
FIGURE 15 - TOTAL NUMBER OF UNITS BUILT UTILIZING AFFORDABLE
HOUSING PROGRAMS NEEDED TO MEET LONG-TERM GOAL
Source: City of Fort Collins, Planning Department
The 10% goal is an ambitious goal. To meet this goal, the City will likely have to implement a series of programs and
policies that may not be palatable currently. But as the City approaches build out in 2040 providing affordable housing
will require further incentives to reduce costs and money from the City to bridge the financial gap on affordable housing
projects. By quantifying these aspirations, future iterations of this plan will be better equipped to make targeted
recommendations to achieve the long-term, 10% goal.
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