New state housing development resources have been made available since Governor Laura Kelly this month signed House Bill 2237 allocating $62 million for, among other rural housing support programs, the state’s Moderate Income Housing Program. This is good news for Dodge City and the surrounding regions where rural communities, like those in Clark, Hodgeman and Meade Counties, hope to meet the housing needs associated with the arrival of the Hilmar Cheese Company plant and the dairies destined to be a part of its supply chain. The plant is scheduled to break ground later this year, and with it as many as 12 new dairies within a 50-mile radius of Dodge City. “There will be up to 1,000 contractors in town at times and ultimately there will be 1,000 new permanent jobs created by this project,” Dodge City/Ford County Economic Development Corp. director Joann Knight said. “I’m concerned about rural housing. There has not been new development in those places in a long time. They need infrastructure development.
Source: Dodge City Daily Globe
