By Abigail Kessler | AZ Daily Sun
Like many places across the United States, housing has gotten more expensive in Flagstaff over the past year. Costs for rental units of all sizes have risen, as have median sales prices on homes.
This is nothing new to this city — most experts and residents say it’s been hard to find affordable housing here for as long as they can remember.
This week, the Daily Sun will be sharing some perspectives, from renters to realtors to local experts, on what housing looks like in Flagstaff right now and what it might take to make it more attainable for the people who live here.
After declaring an affordable housing emergency in December 2020, the city of Flagstaff announced a 10-year plan to address it this February. The almost 70-page document outlines the scope of the housing crisis and suggests a variety of ways to achieve those goals, from incentivizing affordable units to encouraging adaptive reuse of existing buildings and exploring ways to amend the city’s zoning code.
