Housing
Focus Area:
Housing
Focus
Goal: Address the county’s needs for new housing and redeveloped housing that is accessible and attainable
- Promote adaptive reuse and redevelopment of obsolete commercial and industrial properties
- Assess and address the mismatch between housing stock and housing demand, including age, price point, type, and location
What We Look To Achieve
Goals, Strategies, and Metrics
Together
The IMAGINE Berks planning team gathered valuable insights and feedback from the community members and reviewed this information in conjunction with quantitative data to form a comprehensive understanding of Berks County’s economy – both its current state and future outlook. The planning team used this information to assess the community’s strengths, challenges, and opportunities. Based on this analysis, five focus areas were identified:
For each of these focus areas, the project team prioritized goals and strategies based on their potential impact on economic development and feasibility for implementation. Metric were assigned to each focus area to track the progress of implementation. and overall state of the economy over the course of this 5 year plan.