Pikes Peak Housing Network
The Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC is proud to host the Pikes Peak Housing Network (PPHN), an independent organization whose mission is to find solutions for housing affordability, access, and production in the Pikes Peak region.
Pikes Peak Housing Network was established in 2023 by a group of community leaders concerned about Colorado Springs’ lack of affordable and workforce housing for our growing workforce, families, military, and senior population.
PPHN is the only nonprofit organization accomplishing this work in Colorado, and the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC works alongside them to ensure our businesses can grow and hire their needed workforce.
Mission
Our mission is to foster innovative and collaborative solutions that advance housing affordability, access, and production in the Pikes Peak Region.
Guiding Principles
- PPHN will promote a regional culture that values affordable and attainable housing, diverse housing types, a stable workforce, and the foundation for individuals and families to thrive.
- PPHN will unite an ongoing broad-based coalition of partners from businesses, nonprofits, real estate, and government that have diverse perspectives and interests to promote enduring solutions to housing needs across all income levels.
- PPHN will provide, and be guided by, research, data, and best practices to inform effective decision-making
- PPHN will advocate for affordable and attainable housing policies and solutions that increase housing stock throughout the Pikes Peak Region and where it is most needed.
- Through education, PPHN will build regional capacity and experiences around best practices, neighborhood planning strategies, real estate options, and housing finance.
- PPHN will confront social, economic, and racial housing practices that are discriminatory and result in segregation or disenfranchisement.
PPHN Leadership Council Members
- David Lord | Chair
- Lee Patke | Greccio Housing – Vice Chair
- Susan Edmondson | Downtown Partnership
- Thomas Garmong | Oakwood Homes
- Laura Nelson | Apartment Association of Southern Colorado
- Ben Anderson | Solid Rock
- Katie Sunderlin | City of Colorado Springs
- Devin Camacho | Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC
- Johnna Reeder Kleymeyer | Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC
- Randi Davis | El Paso County
Housing Policy Advisory Committee (H-PAC)
The Housing Policy Advisory Committee (H-PAC) provides guidance to the Pikes Peak Housing Network on local and state legislation. H-PAC is committed to:
- Advocating for affordable and attainable housing policies and solutions that increase housing stock throughout all neighborhoods within the Pikes Peak Region
- Ensuring residents of all income levels can afford to live in every neighborhood within our region.
- Advocating for policies that remove barriers to construction and development of all housing.
- Supporting policies that encourage cooperation and partnership among all levels of government, the private sector, and nonprofit entities to bring more housing units to market for all income levels.
H-PAC Members
- Andrea Barlow | NES
- Kevin Walker | Walker District Managers
- Laura Nelson | AASC
- Gordon Dean | Pikes Peak Association of Realtors
- Clarissa Thomas | Pikes Peak Association of Realtors
- Susan Edmondson | Downtown Partnership
- Peter Wysocki City of Colorado Springs
- Katie Sunderland | City of Colorado Springs
- Thomas Garmong | Oakwood Homes
- Jill Gaebler | Pikes Peak Housing Network
- Devin Camacho | Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC
- Marla Novak | HBA
- Andy Gunning | PPACG
- Ryan Parsell | El Paso County
- Beth Roalstad | Homeward Pikes Peak
