EHI Consultants gave local council members their estimate of the gap between Lexington’s available housing and what’s needed to meet demand. Adrian Bryant with CivicLex says their study put the number in the tens of thousands.
“Lexington, according to them in their study, needs 22,000 housing units, period, across the board. That’s how far we are behind relative to the demand, the amount of people wanting to move in,” Bryant says. “And 17 thousand of those are needed at what they are considering an affordable level. So 80% or below of the area median income.”
It’s a need the city is hoping to ease over time with its expansion of the urban service boundary…