Growing Idaho: Our housing crisis is a national problem

BOISE, Idaho — If you're wondering if we are still in a housing crisis, you don't read this series enough. But when we say, " we are still in a housing crisis," we’re not just talking about Idaho.

Boise's Director of Housing and Homelessness Policy, Nicki Olivier Hellenkamp, knows the City of Trees is in a housing crisis. But so are the Treasure and Magic Valleys, Idaho, and the entire nation.

She said, "I think it's important to recognize that the things that we are challenged with here really are all over the country, things that cities, counties, states, are grappling with."

According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, poor households face a housing shortage in every state and major metropolitan area in the country. There's a shortage of more than 7 million affordabl