{"id":21336,"date":"2024-08-21T01:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=21336"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T21:58:15","slug":"unseen-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/unseen-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unseen barriers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Housing Issue Within Latino Community<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

By Monica Carrillo<\/em><\/p>\n

While there has been more housing available in Blaine County, affordable housing is still an issue for many Latinos in the Wood River Valley.
\nAs of right now, The current median for rent in the county is $2,300, with Ketchum having the highest rent cost at 3,297. Hailey\u2019s average rent cost comes to $2,088, while Bellevue\u2019s average rent cost is $1,320.
\nDaniel Hansen, community engagement manager at City of Ketchum, said that housing is currently an issue for everyone in the valley, however, many struggles that the Hispanic\/Latino community deal with are some things that many people can take for granted.
\n\u201cThere are a lot of unseen barriers\u2014beyond finances\u2014to living here that many of us may take for granted,\u201d Hansen said. \u201c Difficulties that have been expressed by our Hispanic\/Latino communities include feeling like they\u2019re on the outside looking in. Some may be new to the area, don\u2019t know many people, are unfamiliar with the culture, or aren\u2019t fluent in English.\u201d
\nAccording to the latest Hispanic Data Profile book from the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs, almost 40% of Latinos in Blaine County don\u2019t speak English well or at all.
\nIt also states Hispanics in Idaho were much less likely to own their homes than non-Hispanics. Homeownership was 57% among Hispanics, compared to 74% among non-Hispanics.
\nHansen said that before the pandemic Blaine County\u2019s population had grown by 5% in one year in comparison to the normal 1% they would see years before, which in turn meant 715 long-term rentals were lost.
\n\u201cThe majority of renters displaced from the lost rental properties did not purchase a home instead, they left. As a result, there has been a massive demographic change in Blaine County,\u201d Hansen said.
\nTo help alleviate some of the struggle they\u2019ve seen within the Hispanic\/Latino community, they\u2019ve expanded their team so they can work with them and their needs.
\n\u201cSince 2022, there has been more housing available in Blaine County, but it\u2019s still not affordable to most households. Blaine County Housing Authority (BCHA) now has two bilingual program administrators that assist our Spanish speaking population with navigating resources and finding housing. Many of the non-profits that these individuals are working with refer them to BCHA to help them find housing solutions,\u201d he said.
\nBCHA and other non-profits also have provided case management and helped those in need understand what resources are available and how to take advantage of them. This includes where to apply for permanent housing and navigating and mediating conflicts between tenants and landlords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Housing Issue Within Latino Community By Monica Carrillo While there has been more housing available in Blaine County, affordable housing is still an issue for many Latinos in the Wood River Valley. As of right now, The current median for rent in the county is $2,300, with Ketchum having the highest rent cost at 3,297. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,72,82,168,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-blaine-county","category-community","category-housing","category-latinx","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21338,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336\/revisions\/21338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}