As demand to live in Collin County increases, affordable housing efforts are struggling to keep up
by Lilly Kersh, Staff Writer • Published April 14, 2026
Half a dozen years ago, Nick Walsh remembers residents lining up at a McKinney City Council meeting to express staunch opposition to an apartment building intended to provide an affordable place for the city’s growing workforce to live.
“By one vote, we made it through City Council after over an hour of debate and testimony,” said Walsh, vice president of development at The NRP Group, a multifamily affordable housing development firm. The project received more than 100 letters of opposition.
When it came to affordable housing, Walsh said “there just wasn’t this understanding at the time.”
At McKinney’s first affordable housing summit Monday, he said it’s clear the attitude has changed. Around 300 attendees gathered in Collin County to discuss how to improve affordable housing in the fast-growing area where housing is in high demand.
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