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    INITIATIVE WORKSHOP

    Register for the BRAND West initiative workshop in Bend, Oregon

    This workshop will highlight strategies to advance rural, middle-income, and affordable housing development and recommendations to ensure that federal programs function effectively for western states. Key topics include regulatory reforms, attainable homeownership, and resilient housing.

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    INITIATIVE WORKSHOP

    Watch the BRAND West Workshop in Salt Lake City

    Following years of underbuilding, underinvestment, and extraordinary growth – driven by a complex mix of factors – the West is facing severe housing shortages. The first workshop of the Western Governors’ Association’s Building Resilient and Affordable New Developments in the West (BRAND West) initiative, hosted by Governor Spencer Cox, examined ways to build more homes by expanding housing options, encouraging innovative funding mechanisms, leveraging infrastructure investments, increasing regional coordination, and planning vibrant, livable communities.

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    GOVERNORS' MEETING

    WGA's 2024 Winter Meeting

    The 2024 Winter Meeting of the Western Governors' Association took place at the Four Seasons Las Vegas on December 9-10. Hosted by WGA's Chair, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, this year's meeting featured Western Governors and their special guests in public policy discussions about permitting reform, health care, the use of public land for housing developments, and insuring homes against wildfire.

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    POLICY

    Resolutions

    Western Governors formally approved five policy resolutions at WGA's 2024 Winter Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. The resolutions represent the Governors’ collective policy on air quality, compensatory mitigation, energy, health care, and workforce development.    

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    PODCAST

    Fighting Invasive Mussels with Idaho Governor Brad Little

    In this episode of Out West, hear about the threat posed by invasive zebra and quagga mussels to western waterways, and understand the ongoing work to contain and eliminate this threat. Dive in to learn more about invasive mussel identifications in the Snake River and the Colorado River.

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    WGA Winter Meeting, December 9-10, 2024, Las Vegas Nevada

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    REGISTER: The Oregon BRAND West initiative workshop will focus on regulator...
    12/05/2024
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    Western Governors secure key policy victories to close out 2024
    12/20/2024
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    WGA in the West (12/14-12/19)
    12/20/2024
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    WATCH: Governor Cox hosts the first BRAND West initiative workshop in Salt ...
    12/18/2024
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    CHAIR'S INITIATIVE

    Building Resilient and Affordable New Developments in the West

    By New Mexico
    Michelle Lujan Grisham

    The 2025 WGA Chair initiative of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, Building Resilient and Affordable New Developments in the West (BRAND West), will focus on expanding access to housing in western states.  The initiative will examine strategies to address housing availability and affordability and promote smart and sustainable development in communities throughout the West.

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