The Planning Commission is seeking a qualified consultant to provide affordable housing and jobs/housing balance analyses and recommendations described in this Request For Proposals (RFP). The commossion is the regional planning agency for the region . The Lehigh Valley is comprised of 62 municipalities including the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton, 27 boroughs and 32 townships.
The LVPC is a subrecipient responsible for housing studies. Following is a brief outline for two studies to be done under the Housing component of the grant. Consulting Assistance is requested for the two studies. The first is an update to a report entitled An Affordable Housing Assessment of the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania prepared for the LVPC in 2007 by Mullin & Lonergan Associates, Inc. The second is a Jobs/Housing Balance Study for the Lehigh Valley. The first report is mainly an update of the 2007 study. The second report is completely new. For this RFP, the LVPC will solicit proposals from interested consultants and select the highest ranked respondent.