Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Community Needs Assessment and Housing Fabrication Facility Feasibility Study
Project Profile
Client:
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Tribal Planning & Housing Opportunity Program
Project Location:
Fort Hall, Idaho
Project Time Frame:
March 2021 - December 2021
Services:
Housing Unit Mapping
Household Survey
Analysis of Newly Collected Data
Needs Assessment
Market Research
Feasibility Assessment
Areas of Focus:
Housing
Demographics
Economic Development
Education
Employment
Government and Management
Health
Income
Project Description
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are federally-recognized tribes residing on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, located in the eastern Snake River Plain of southeastern Idaho near the town of Pocatello, Idaho. The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall comprise the eastern and western bands of the Northern Shoshone and the Bannock, or Northern Paiute, bands. The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes have launched the 2021 Shoshone-Bannock Community Needs Assessment and Housing Fabrication Facility Feasibility Study to help collect essential housing and demographic-related data that will be used to determine the feasibility and economic sustainability of developing a Tribal housing fabrication facility as well as update the Tribes’ successful 2016 Housing Needs Assessment that Big Water Consulting helped conduct.
As a part of this project, Water will compile the information necessary to help the Tribes determine whether or not a housing fabrication facility will most effectively address the need for housing as well as address a key economic development priority strategy as outlined in the SBT Tribes’ 2017 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS).
This project is guided by two questions: What is the need and market for housing on the Fort Hall Reservation and the relevant adjacent housing market? And what can the Tribes do to address these needs in the most resource-effective way? Answering these questions will require an analysis of existing data; research of housing options and technical/capacity requirements; collection of new data; a feasibility assessment; and business plan development.
