RAPID CITY — The interim Housing Needs Study Committee held its second meeting Wednesday in Rapid City. District 24 Representative Mike Weisgram of Fort Pierre is serving on the Committee and says infrastructure continues to surface as a concern to affordable housing…
Former legislator David Lust testified about the Rapid City Strategic Housing Trust Fund and how it could be one solution the Committee is looking for…
Wiegram says Lust’s program is the kind of innovative thinking the Committee is looking for…
The committee also heard about housing concerns around Ellsworth Air Force Base and from home builders who say housing costs could be lowered by constructors looking into building codes and possibly using less expensive materials that still fit proper building codes.
