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INDIVIDUAL COMMENTS TAKEN FROM OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS "Ouite a Bit - 54%" • Very much. This type of business, historically, is not a high income industry. Therefor, if employees cannot earn sufficient amounts for local housing, we either lose employees, hire substandard employees, or try to raise our prices to enable us to pay more. • Quite a bit, because people who live in Louisville will look here in Louisville for work first. To a great degree. The fees imposed by the City of Louisville make housing here very expensive in relation to Broomfield, Longmont, or Lafayette. Prospective employees find it difficult to live here. • It is beneficial to both employer and employee to offer jobs in a community which offers affordable housing. • Creating more affordable housing will affect our ability to attract office staff help. • Very much. New employees moving to the area find housing much more affordable in the areas surrounding Louisville. • It would give us the opportunity to hire people best qualified to meet our needs. Almost 17 percent of the responses can be classified as doubtful or uncertain. For example, these answers are instructive: • I have not had a lot of applicants say they cannot afford to live in this area, although they travel to work further and live in Arvada, Northglenn, instead of Louisville. • I do not believe it will affect new prospects, but would affect current employees who now commute. Due to major budget problems we do not anticipate many new jobs in the next couple of years. With layoffs we are facing, there may be increasing numbers of our employees who will not be able to make mortgage payments. About 21 percent of the employers said that affordable housing would not affect prospective employees. usually in succinct phrases such as: • We do not project expanding our employee base, so it is not an issue. Another 8 percent of the respondents did not answer. 6