Hoppe Development's Tallgrass mixed-income housing site. (Courtesy of DAA, FoleyShald, Hoppe Development)

PAPILLION, Nebraska — Nebraska’s big demand for affordable housing calls for big ideas, and the new Tallgrass housing project in Sarpy County is one developer’s novel approach to helping fill that tall order.

Lincoln-based Hoppe Development started out with a blank 35-acre canvas on which it plans to grow an entire mixed-income neighborhood inside a more massive 440-acre multi-use development.

The private developer with help from a nonprofit partner will plant a variety of affordable housing types among Tallgrass’ 600 dwellings — a feat that required competitive applications to gain funding from multiple governmental and other sources.

But perhaps the most atypical element is the l

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