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From the meeting · City Council, · 0:28

What a new affordable apartment costs to build

As the council weighs a city loan for The Joule, an affordable housing project, staff come back with the per-unit and per-bedroom costs, after a member had asked for the cost per bedroom.

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a speaker Did the math.

a speaker Yeah.

a speaker For the Joule, the total unit for the total project cost per unit is $803,000 and then per bedroom is 444,000

a speaker Obviously like we should be pushing hard to get that as low as possible and that 400 plus per bedroom is very different than studios that cost 800,000 per unit and I just think that that's worth mentioning.

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From the public recording of the City Council, October 27, 2026. Picked and described with AI; the words are the meeting's own. Remove this clip