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Latcham leaving role as Anawim’s president

Cynthia Latcham, Anawim Housing’s president, is leaving the organization at the end of September, the group announced.  Latcham started at Anawim 12 years ago as a program director. She became the group’s executive director in …

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Origin Homes receives Rand Fisher Rural Leadership Award

Origin Homes was awarded a 2025 Rand Fisher Rural Leadership Award at the 2025 Iowa Rural Summit. The award, given by the Iowa Rural Development Council, highlights an organization that demonstrates exceptional leadership, innovation and …

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Housing symposium planned for May 1

Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, executive director of Children’s HealthWatch, will headline the Housing Matters Symposium, an event annually presented by the Polk County Housing Trust Fund. This year’s event will focus on housing as a …

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2 apartment projects receive final design approval from DM board

A three-story mixed-use mass timber building is planned for 3404-3422 Ingersoll Ave. in Des Moines. Goldfinch Lofts will include commercial space on the street level and 28 residential units on the second and third floors. …
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Polk, Dallas counties see increase in residential valuations

The valuation of residential property grew by an average of 9.9% in Polk County and 4.5% in Dallas County in this year’s reassessment of property values, officials with the counties said.

The increases are substantially …

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Valuation of multifamily properties increases in Polk, Dallas counties

The valuation of multifamily properties has increased an average of 7.9% in Polk County and 21% in Dallas County, assessors’ information shows.

In Dallas County, multifamily projects that were completed in 2023 and 2024 and …

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Construction of workforce housing project in Waukee set to begin

Debi Durham, director of the Iowa Economic Development Authority and Iowa Finance Authority (top left photo) and Courtney Clarke, Waukee mayor (top right photo), talk about a workforce housing project as Lance Henning, CEO of…
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Funding approved for proposed housing project

The Des Moines City Council on Monday approved allocating $2.5 million to a housing project that would convert a hotel into rental housing for low-income adults. Greater Des Moines Supportive Housing, a nonprofit group that …

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Nonprofit group wants to convert downtown hotel into housing for low-income adults

A decades-old hotel that overlooks downtown Des Moines could be converted to rental housing for low-income adults, city documents show.

The Des Moines City Council at its meeting today is scheduled to vote on providing …

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Newly built houses make up larger share of Des Moines-area home sales but take longer to sell

Newly built homes made up 24% of homes sold in the Greater Des Moines area in 2024, a percentage that has increased each year since 2019, data from Multiple Listing Service shows. The chart above…