Affordable Housing & Making Home Ownership Achievable in Longmont

Longmont has long been a place where working families could build a life, buy a home, and thrive. But today, that promise is slipping out of reach for too many. Housing costs are rising, corporate investors are buying up local homes, and most new development consists of high-density rentals that don’t reflect the needs of our community. People are right to ask: Is this really the kind of growth we want?

Jake Marsing is proudly pro-housing—but he believes that housing must reflect our values. That means ensuring renters can find truly affordable places to live and that working families have a real pathway to homeownership in the community they serve.

As Vice Chair of Longmont’s Housing and Human Services Advisory Board, Jake supported millions of dollars in funding for affordable housing projects that made a difference for families. Now, he's ready to build on that work to meet today’s challenges head on.

Jake supports raising Longmont’s inclusionary housing requirement from 12 to 15 percent—aligning us with neighboring cities and helping ensure that more affordable homes are actually built. He’ll push to rebalance the fee-in-lieu system so that developers are encouraged to build affordable for-sale units.

Jake also knows that ownership matters. When families can put down roots, neighborhoods grow stronger. That’s why he’s committed to creating more opportunities for working people to own a home in Longmont—through thoughtful policy, better incentives, and a permitting process that helps good projects move forward quickly.

And Jake will stand up to the corporate and out-of-state investors who are pricing out local families and reshaping our neighborhoods for profit. Longmont families—not hedge funds—should have the first shot at living and thriving in our community.

Affordable housing and attainable homeownership are two sides of the same coin. Jake is ready to fight for both—because everyone deserves a place to call home in Longmont.