Affordable housing has been a longtime concern in Boise. Recognizing that, the City Council developed incentives to nudge developers toward building more affordable homes as part of 2023’s zoning code rewrite.
For example, the new code allowed builders to construct fewer parking spaces in complexes as long as they kept a certain number of apartments classified as “affordable,” meaning for people in a certain income range.
Now, city staff have proposed lowering the requirements for developers after an analysis showed they aren’t financially feasible…