A metal archway over a street is decorated with a cattle drive on one side and railway loading corral on the other. The center says "Caldwell, 1871". The arch rests on two massive limestone pillars. Downtown buildings are visible in the background.

Overwhelmed with housing challenges? Gather your crowd

ByBecky McCray

Caldwell, Kansas, has a population of about 1000 people. The city has taken an active role in improving the condition and availability of housing in their town. That’s a LOT for a town of 1,000 people!  But the city is not the only group interested in housing. When I visited the town, we made a…

Two houses are shown in the framing stage. In the foreground, one house has the stud walls up. A stack of lumber and a real estate sight sit in front of it. In the background, another house has rafters up and the side walls are wrapped in greenboard.

How Fairview stopped talking about housing and started building houses

ByBecky McCray

At the Teeny Tiny Town Summit last week, JaNae Barnard from Fairview, Oklahoma, shared how they jump started their new housing project. “We stopped settling for talking,” she said. She loaded up the key folks from Major County Economic Development, and they drove past every single house in Fairview. That gave everyone a much clearer…