Business View Civil and Municipal l January 2023

47 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 Stephane Frijia, President of the Northeast Regional Partnership agrees. “Employers want to know that their investment is coupled and balanced by local investments in jobs and housing and that people don’t have to travel 45 minutes away just to find a place to live and then go to work,” he explains. “Housing is crucial for the ability to effectively market NEW HAVEN, INDIANA a region; having localized housing provides a pathway to a balanced community.” Frijia notes that in 2019, the Northeast Partnership identified a housing need of about 16,000 new units across the 11-county area over a period of the next five years. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and everything shut down. Now he says that the demand