Boulder Housing Partners: Archive

Stuart Grogan Receives Outstanding Staff Person...

Boulder Housing Partners’ Stuart Grogan, Director of Development, is the recipient of the Mountain Plains NAHRO 2013 Outstanding Staff Person award. The award is given to a person whose dedication and accomplishments deserve statewide recognition. Stuart was acknowledged for the tremendous role he plays as a teacher and a mentor in our industry. Stuart has been the driving force behind...

May 15th

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May 6th

New Staff

BHP is excited to welcome two new staff members: Natasha Pelegrina as Assistant Property Manager and Nick Phillips as Property Manager. Natasha grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico and traveled all over the country as a member of the United States Coast Guard during the last eight years. She has now traded the beach for the beautiful mountains of Colorado. With her recently earned MBA, she is...

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Apr 23rd

Boulder Housing Partners Opens Lottery and Wait...

Boulder Housing Partners (BHP) is accepting applications for three affordable housing programs until 5 p.m. April 24, 2013. Boulder Housing Partners provides assistance to nearly 2,000 households in the City of Boulder. Residents include area workers, seniors, families and people with disabilities. In-town affordable housing helps eliminate daily commutes and puts residents in touch with needed...

Apr 11th

BHP Foundation: Help Us Close the Achievement Gap

Did you know that access to the internet is one of the key predictors of educational attainment and future income today? Within our BHP community, 170 children do not have internet access at home. It will become increasingly difficult to close the achievement gap if homework becomes internet-based and our children go without accessible technology. The Boulder Valley School District knows this...

Dec 5th

Watch

Boulder Housing Partners (BHP) and its Red Oak Park development have been named the winner of a 2012 Urban Land Institute (ULI) Global Award for Excellence in Real Estate Design and Development. BHP Executive Director Betsey Martens accepted the award October 19 at ULI’s 75th Anniversary Conference in Denver. November 6, 2012

Nov 6th

Oct 31st

Green Retrofit Results Are In!

The Canyon Point Green Retrofit post-rehab utility consumption report found that we had on average 37% savings on all utilities (water, electricity and gas). The Retrofit: Each unit of the 83-bedroom apartment complex was supplied with new ENERGY STAR kitchen appliances and air-conditioners, while the exterior of the building had new windows, new siding, new insulation, and solar panels...

Aug 15th

City of Boulder Honors Betsey Martens

Boulder Housing Partners executive director Betsey Martens has been honored by the Boulder City Council for more than two decades of “consistent excellence, high performance and singular leadership.” In a July 17th proclamation signed by Boulder Mayor Matthew Applebaum, the city council recognized Martens “for her extraordinary commitment to affordable housing and improving the lives of so many...

Aug 6th

Boulder Food Rescue Delivers Food and Happiness,...

Posted by Emily Reed, Media Project Coordinator Founded less than a year ago, Boulder Food Rescue has saved over 90,000 pounds of food from being discarded. The volunteer powered non-profit picks up soon-to-expire perishable items from local restaurants, grocers, and gardens and delivers them by bike to those in need. Every week since February the organization has been delivering fresh produce...

Jul 20th

Boulder Housing Project's Red Oak Park is finalist...

By Cory Lamz at the Daily Camera Boulder Housing Partners has received a national award and is a finalist for two more awards, including an international one, for its Red Oak Park affordable housing project. Twenty-eight other real estate development projects are finalists for the international award, part of the 33rd annual Global Awards for Excellence by the Urban Land Institute. The winner...

Jun 20th

Guiding Principles for a New Affordable Housing...

A practitioner’s perspective By Betsey Martens Executive Director, Boulder Housing Partners For the Journal of Housing & Community Development, 2011 This article is the third in a series that began with an exploration of the political history of public housing [1]. That first piece explored the idea that many of the problems that challenge our affordable housing industry today have...

May 16th

Letter To City Council on Proposed 1175 Lee Hill

March 16, 2012 Dear Council members, We know you have been getting a lot of communication about the 1175 Lee Hill proposal. We asked project supporters to do two things in order to show their support and respect your time at the public hearing: 1) voice their support via our website and 2) allow a proxy to speak for them on March 20. One of our five speakers will represent the 374 people who...

Mar 21st

Repositioning Public Housing

Six Steps to Hope: A HOPE VI companion plan By Betsey Martens Executive Director, Boulder Housing Partners For the NAHRO Annual Conference, October 2009 This paper builds on my January 2009 article in the Journal of Housing & Community Development about the political history of public housing. That article explored the idea that many of the problems that challenge our affordable housing...

Dec 13th

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A POLITICAL HISTORY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING

The following article is the first part of a three part series written by Betsey Martens, Executive Director of Boulder Housing Partners and President of NAHRO. The article was published in Housing & Community Development, January/February 2009. What do the U. S. Shipping Act of 1917 and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program have in common? Quite a lot, as it turns out. The history of our...

Nov 15th

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1175 Lee Hill: Key Points

The following key points provide a brief description of BHP’s proposed 1175 Lee Hill community Summary Two-story, 31-unit apartment community with on-site supportive services. Each apartment has its own bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room. It is a rental apartment community, not a shelter. There are eligibility requirements. Must not earn more than 30% of Boulder’s area median income...

Oct 26th

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Volunteering At BHP

Interested in learning more about affordable housing by getting a first-hand experience with the residents, properties, or Boulder Housing Partners? Try volunteering for BHP out! Volunteering is a great way to get involved with your community, and also learn about something you may be interested in. You can either volunteer individually or get a group together. Volunteers carry out the company’s...

Apr 12th

Check Out Our Properties!!

Looking for an affordable place to live? Boulder Housing Partners has about 400 affordable housing properties throughout the city of Boulder that are available to all different age groups. Properties include apartments, townhomes, duplexes, triplexes, and studios. Many of the rentals are in prime locations, including places near the Pearl Street Mall and in North, South, and Central Boulder....

Apr 4th

Media Day - Red Oak Park

Hello, I am a part of a group of CU-Boulder students who will be writing the Boulder Housing Partners (BHP) blog for the next several months, bringing you news and information regarding BHP and affordable housing in general. Here is the latest news regarding the newest of BHP’s projects: On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, Boulder Housing Partners had a media day to introduce Red Oak Park. The...

Apr 1st

Lottery System Could Speed Up Section 8 Voucher...

Currently under review by the public and the Board of Commissioners is the proposal to replace the wait list system with a lottery system, which has the potential to create fairness, increase efficiency and decrease costs. The Board will reivew the final proposal on December 13, 2010, with the possibility of adopting the change. There is a waitlist of three to six years to become a resident in...

Dec 8th

High Mar

Boulder is primarily known to outsiders as a college town and people associate the city with a large amount of young people. People that live in Boulder know this to be true only in a small area around the campus. Boulder is a thriving economy with many innovative young businesses and contains people of all origins, creeds and ages. One age group that tends to be forgotten in our community is our...

Nov 27th

The Power of Community

People often underestimate the power of a community which is open and upfront with its identity of who it is and who it wants to be. This identity translates, in the case of Boulder, CO into a community which values diversity and equality. When you see people and organizations within community reach out to each other to lend their time and efforts to support the fostering of learning and growth to...

Nov 18th

BHP Foundation Makes Wishes Come True…

Boulder Housing Partners (BHP) aims to maximize the amount of positive impact it has on its residents. For an organization to support its ambitions there is a critical need for resource funding. The Boulder Housing Partners Foundation was created as a non-profit 501 (c) (3) to support resident services activities at BHP thru its advocacy and fundraising efforts. A 501(c) (3) is a tax-exempt...

Nov 18th

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Red Oak Park Update

The construction of Red Oak Park is moving along on schedule. The former home of Boulder Mobile Manor, a 60-year-old, 66-units mobile home park, this area just off of Folsom and Valmont is becoming an eco-friendly Boulder Affordable Housing Program for both former Mobile Manor residents, and other community members needing an affordable housing option. Now four months into the construction that...

Nov 8th

Waitlist Openings a Huge Success

From October 6th to October 15th, Boulder Housing Partners opened the Waitlist for applications for the Public Housing, Glen Willow Apartments and Broadway East Communities, and it was a big success. Applications are still being entered and counted, but as of now, there are over 200 applications! This shows just how much demand for Public Housing exists is in Boulder. Public Housing...

Nov 5th

Boulder Housing Partners Partnership Award...

Boulder Housing Partners (BHP) awards three Partnership Awards three times a year to an individual, business, organization or volunteer that has helped BHP communities create and sustain affordable housing. This month the third set of awards are being given and one of the highlighted recipients is a nonprofit organization Based out of Denver, Open Media Foundation (DOM). Open Media Foundation...

Oct 27th

Oct 26th

CU Going Local

CU Going Local is a committed group of university and community members brought together by our common desire to create a more sustainable world through creating organic and sustainable food options. CU Going Local strives to combat global environmental problems through community-based initiatives by empowering students to initiate change in the community. The organization aims to create a...

Oct 25th

Community Gardens

“As I walk through my new neighborhood I just have such a sense of community that I never felt before. My old neighborhood, we just kind of kept to ourselves,” says new local resident Stacy. When the citizens of Boulder think about the Boulder Housing Partners, we hope that they think about them more than just creating homes. A part of their mission statement that should not be forgotten is how...

Oct 25th

I Have a Dream

The sound of a slight breeze rustling the leaves overhead is only interrupted by the sound of the laughter of children in this beautiful center park in the Broadway East Development. This complex that backs up right to the North Boulder Recreational Center was finished only two short years ago but was an important addition to the Boulder community. Boulder Housing Partners in conjunction with the...

Oct 17th

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New Housing Development: Red Oak Park

Leasing already begins in February of 2011! BHP’s newest housing development, Red Oak Park, is taking amazing transformations. Once, 2637 Valmont was the home of Mobile Manor, a 60-year-old, 66-units mobile home park. Now, this area just off of Folsom and Valmont will become eco-friendly affordable housing for both former Mobile Manor residents, and also other community members needing an...

Oct 17th

Boulder Housing Partners Wait List Openings

Boulder Housing Partners (BHP) offers many affordable housing opportunities in the City of Boulder and we are excited to announce the opening of wait lists for several of our housing programs. We will be opening several new wait lists on October 6 at 8 a.m. and closing on October 15 at 5p.m. The wait lists opening October 6 include: Public Housing—reduced rent meeting the needs of low to...

Oct 6th

Welcome to Boulder Housing Partner's Blog

Welcome to the new blog for Boulder Housing Partners! We have created this blog to serve as another source of communication with the community. We want to inform everyone on upcoming events, our partners in the community, and our wonderful volunteers and partner award winners. The blog will also provide updates on new BHP housing projects, such as Broadway East and Red Oak Park. On the blog,...

Sep 27th