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By Ricardo Cabrera, Founder of myWealthBeing.com Home ownership is an economic development catalyst for both individuals and communities and is the easiest and safest vehicle to ignite individual wealth creation. It is also an important factor to assist in ensuring a safe and secure retirement. There are several major benefits to home ownership that you […]

One of the topics of the Advance Longmont Economic Summit was our community’s accessible and attainable housing crisis. In a powerful and thought-provoking panel discussion, Eric Wallace, founder and president of Left Hand Brewing and co-founder of Prosper Longmont; Lonnie Jenkins, vice president of Cornerstone Home Lending; Paul D’Angelo, CEO of Thistle; and Harold Dominguez

By Joe Thompson We all know that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The national housing crisis is most definitely on the crazy train. In our local community of Longmont, a recently published report revealed that housing is on average over 31% of income.

By John Creighton, CEO, High Plains Bank Longmont needs more homes if we hope to have our workforce and young families continue to live in our community. So many of us love Longmont because it is such a wonderful place to raise our families. Yet, our adult children who may want to return to here

By Eric Wallace, founder and president of Left Hand Brewing, Co-Chair Prosper Longmont I began my remarks at last week’s City Council meeting with the words, “I come in peace.” I closed with “We’re here to help.” I was addressing what is a very real crisis in attainable for-purchase workforce housing in our community. Housing

I am writing this post on behalf of my family — including my three children — and my business, Left Hand Brewing Company and my employees seeking housing. Prosper Longmont is an organization advocating for attainable for-purchase workforce housing in our city. We are a champion for those who are currently looking for or aspire to

The November 30th City Council meeting was a successful meeting of the minds regarding the need for a strategic way forward to address our community’s workforce housing crisis. Eric Wallace of Left Hand Brewing, along with several other community leaders such as Lonnie Cramer, president of Longs Peak Hospital, and Joni Lynch of Our Center,

Blog post by Hermine Ngnomire, Entrepreneur, Persona Inc. It has become clear that one of the most pressing needs of our time is housing: affordable and attainable. We are currently in a climate where access to reasonably priced housing is causing a burden on our collective communities. From the least of us to those of

Blog post by Eric Wallace, co-founder and president of Left Hand Brewing Company and founding member of Prosper Longmont I am co-founder and president of Left Hand Brewing Company. I also chair the Longmont Economic Development Partnership board of directors and am one of the founding members of Prosper Longmont. Almost 29 years ago, I