Grand Forks Housing Authority has Plans to Build Family Units

Grand Forks Housing Authority photo.

(KNOX) -The Grand Forks Housing Authority will solicit for the development of family, affordable housing.

Terry Hanson, executive director of the Grand Forks Housing Authority, said that funding will be used as an enticement to attract the development team. The money will be used to secure control of the property until such time that other funding becomes available through the funding cycles of the various affordable housing programs.

“We had applied for funding and we had done this in the past. The Grand Forks Housing Authority applied for funding to be used for purchasing real estate that we could then provide to a developer to subsidize affordable housing in the City of Grand Forks,” Hanson said. “What we propose to develop is a family property. We propose up to 60 units. And the units will consist of twin homes and townhome design.”

Hanson said that they plan to build distinct, personal components.

“What in the industry is called single family housing. Which is either one, two, three or four unit structures,” Hanson said. “Townhome structures, which means that the families who reside there actually have a front and back door to their unit. We are not proposing any apartment complex type of development.”

The project will be done in two phases with the first phase being done on Tobi Lane with 24 twin homes scheduled to be built, and construction slated to begin in the second quarter of 2025.