Workforce Housing

Building Balanced Communities for the North Country:
A Comprehensive Housing Study and Strategy

Building Balanced Communities for the North Country is a regional housing study and action plan focused on understanding local housing needs and finding practical solutions. Through data analysis and community conversations, the project identifies key challenges, measures housing demand, and outlines ten transformative initiatives to help communities meet housing needs in collaborative and creative ways.

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Below are the ways that LCLGRPB is working towards improving workforce housing availability in the North Country:

INITIATIVE #5. WORK LOCAL, LIVE LOCAL

This initiative advances new strategies to ensure workers have access to quality housing near their jobs, including reserving a share of new and existing homes for local workers as a pathway to homeownership.

Accelerate Workforce Housing in the North Country Initiative

LCLGRPB works with regional partners through the Accelerate Workforce Housing in the North Country Initiative, a three-tiered program designed to advance workforce housing development across the region.

1. Community Technical Assistance

LCLGRPB provides hands-on support to communities, including outreach, zoning analysis and updates, Pro-Housing Certification assistance, and identification of sites suitable for housing development. This work helps create a consistent pipeline of housing projects in active communities.

Communities within the Adirondack Park interested in NYS Pro-Housing Certification should contact us at info@lclgrpb.org.

2. Property Pre-Development‍

LCLGRPB and its partners fund pre-development activities on publicly and privately owned properties. This includes zoning and infrastructure assessments, utility availability analysis, site history research, market studies to determine appropriate housing types and scale, and robust community engagement. These efforts result in opportunity site concepts and marketing materials to advance development.

Explore current efforts through our Interactive Map.

3. Housing Development‍

LCLGRPB is actively working with communities and developers to build workforce housing across the region. For-profit and non-profit developers interested in learning more about development opportunities are encouraged to contact us at info@lclgrpb.org.

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INITIATIVE #7. REBALANCE THE REGION'S HOUSING BY CREATING MORE LONG-TERM RENTALS

The LCLGRPB Workforce Housing Revolving Loan Fund supports the creation of attainable, high-quality long-term rental housing for the region's year-round workforce by offering low-interest financing for new rental units.

Eligible projects must be located in Clinton, Essex, Hamilton, Warren or Washington Counties and in communities with populations under 10,000.

Financing is available to undercapitalized, for-profit borrowers seeking to purchase and renovate independently owned long-term rental properties when conventional credit is not otherwise available. Funds may be used only for the purchase and renovation of currently unoccupied properties and must result in new, ready-to-rent long-term rental units.

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Loan Application: 

The Workforce Housing Revolving Loan Fund Application can be found here: Loan Application

Additional Application Materials: 

Credit Authorization Form

Personal Financial Statement

Debt Schedule

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Quick Facts about the LCLGRPB Workforce Housing Revolving Loan Funds

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