One of the biggest challenges with building housing that people can afford is the high cost of land. The Spokane Regional Land Bank buys parcels and holds them to sell to developers who are building affordable housing projects. We’ll talk with Ami Manning from the land bank.

"We really feel like there's land that government folks are holding and for-profit folks are holding, speculatively, that could go into the land bank to help us address the [affordable housing] crisis."

Emma Epperly from Idaho Ed News has written about how schools and politics have become intertwined in Kootenai County. Her case study is the Lakeland School Board in Rathdrum.

"The story really is about who is selecting these candidates for school board. We've got this kind of political machine on one side and th

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