When you assess the housing situation in Fishers, there are two issues that come up quickly…can the city’s own employees afford to live in the city in which they work, and how can employers attract and keep workers when those prospective employees cannot afford to live in the area where they work?

Those were some of the issues explored in a housing discussion held at Fishers City Hall Friday morning all about housing, sponsored by the local nonprofit housing group HAND.  There were representatives of city government, the private sector, the One Zone Chamber of Commerce and other nonprofits such as Habitat for Humanity.

One item revealed during the meeting is that the local Fishers firm RealAmerica Development is in the final stages of receiving approval to construct a low-income apartment development on Lantern Road in Fishers.  Although RealAmerica has its headquarters in Fishers, and has several developments around the state, this will be their first project here in Fishers.

After the meeting, I spoke with Jennifer Miller and Andrea Davis from HAND and Julia Smith from Novogradac about the meetings held around the county so far…