High housing prices mean local workers are getting priced out of the communities they serve all across the Mountain West. One nonprofit in southwest Colorado is trying to make small town housing affordable—by turning to factory-built homes.
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Some continue to push back on plans that include building employee housing and retail space for Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
Gierau’s lesson learned: “Wyoming is pretty good at not over-regulating.”
The only housing advocacy group in the region, less than a decade old, hopes the creation of a new statewide organization will lead to more political influence in Cheyenne.