City Of Salem: Salem Housing Road Map Community Forum

Press release from the City of Salem:

March 10, 2022

The City of Salem is entering Phase IV: Visioning, Strategies, and Goals of the Salem Housing Road Map: A Housing Plan for All. The purpose of the Road Map is to help Salem find the best ways to meet its housing needs and shape the location, type, and design of development. The Road Map will consider best practices to help promote diverse housing options that are sensitive to the community context and capacity. When communities encourage homes of many types and sizes, it helps give all kinds of people affordable options and keep prices from shooting out of reach.

As part of this process there have been multiple opportunities for Salem community members to be involved and help shape the recommendations in the plan. The project team held focus groups this fall, launched a survey, provided community members to host Meetings in a Box, and held two public forums over the past several months.

The next opportunity to participate is coming up soon!

Join the City’s project team for a virtual Community Forum on Tuesday, 03/22 at 6:30pm. This online event is free and open to the public. Register here (https://linktr.ee/SalemHousingRoadmap). During the webinar, the City’s project consultants will discuss some of the proposed strategies around housing and lead participants through interactive online activities so you can share your insights.

You can learn more about the Road Map at the project website and see past forums here (https://housing-goals-salemma.hub.arcgis.com/).

This press release was produced by the City of Salem. The views expressed here are the author’s own.