TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV)— The housing climate in Clay County was the topic of discussion during a symposium.
The event was held at the White Pine Manor and was done by the Clay County Housing Steering Committee in partnership with Capital Stacker and Thrive West Central. It brought community members and leaders together to discuss how to improve the housing market and what the goals could be for Clay County in the next five years and what can be done to make those goals a reality.
Thrive CEO Ryan Keller hopes those who attended can help Thrive reach its goal for Clay County.
“We want them to start gaining the confidence to be able to take the tools and the resources that we’re creating and really go out and work within that housing ecosystem to start really furthering it for our production goals,” Keller said.
CEO of Club 720 Solutions, Heather Presley-Cowen, was a speaker during this symposium, and she thinks something like this can be done because she has seen it done in other towns and counties before.
“They’ve taken ownership of their own market potential, much like Clay County is doing here today,” Presley-Cowen said. “So, not just understanding that the region has market potential, but saying, okay, we know we have our own local market potential. We have our own regional builders. We have our own realtors, our own banks, and they’re just creating an ecosystem and so when I look at what’s happened in Northeast Indiana, I think it’s that communities decided that one, they believe in their own market potential and they’re taking action, and I’ve heard now multiple times over clay county is doing that exact same thing.”
Keller mentioned that the goal is to have 750-1,000 new housing units added to Clay County within the next five years.
