An idea that became a reality to help people find affordable housing brought the governor to Colorado Springs this week.
Gov. Jared Polis spent about 30 minutes touring the Village at Solid Rock on Wednesday. The 77-unit apartment complex was built on church-owned property off S. Circle Drive just south of Fountain Boulevard and hosted its grand opening back in September. Pastor Ben Anderson of Solid Rock Christian Center gave the tour.
“The great thing about this is that it went from vision to completion,” Pastor Anderson explained. “I had a conversation with Governor Polis, probably like three or four years ago, and we were talking about affordable housing. And we were talking also about the church repurposing land to build housing on.”
Those talks turned into action. With help from state funding and putting the non-profit Greccio Housing in charge of managing the property, people who earn between 30% and 80% of the area’s median income now have a place to call home. The church partnered with Commonwealth Development and Greccio Housing to secure funding from the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority. Pastor Anderson explaining the whole church was behind the project.