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Thunder Valley Helps Tackle Tribal Housing Shortage

Anyone who wants to start a new housing development has some hurdles to overcome.

On tribal lands in South Dakota those hurdles are bigger than just about anywhere else in the country.

But new housing efforts are finding unique ways to break the old molds.   As part of our continuing series on infrastructure the “State of our State”-- SDPB’s Charles Michael Ray profiles one of the new housing developments on Pine Ridge.

Here is an extended interview with Nick Tilsen of Thunder Valley.

TilsonInterview.MP3

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