The availability of affordable workforce housing is essential to the resiliency and quality of life in all of NWCCOG’s communities. NWCCOG partnered with the Colorado Association of Ski Towns to produce the Regional Workforce Housing Report which was published January 2019. This report highlights the efforts in NWCCOG and CAST member jurisdictions actively working on workforce housing solutions. This report is not all-inclusive but intends to highlight innovative programs and tools in the workforce housing arena. We will periodically report on new projects, tools, and initiatives since this report was published.
Updates: What’s new since January 2019 Report?
Willits Workforce Housing Project in Basalt
- Fraser receives Low-Income Housing Tax Credits from CHFA for 60 affordable apartments in the Fraser Mill Development in Grand Park
- Breckenridge Housing Helps Program – deed restriction acquisition program
- Avon considers “Empty Home Tax” implemented in Vancouver, Canada
- Snowmass Village – broke ground on Coffey Place October 2019 which includes 15 workforce housing units. In 2019, Town Council adopted a goal to build 200 housing units to support the workforce. Issued an RFP for land use planning to develop a plan to build another 185 workforce units
- Feds to Rescue in Aspen’s Affordable Housing Crisis
- Aspen Skiing Company / Willits Workforce Housing Project to add 148 units of workforce housing
- Eagle Vail Office building renovated into shared living facility with 30 single-occupancy units
- Dillon Valley Vistas Workforce Housing – Summit County is proposing to build 12 for sale duplex units at an average of 100% AMI on a site located in Dillon Valley
- Telluride voters to decide on short-term rental tax
- Dillon looks to partner with USFS on workforce housing project
- Frisco Housing Helps Program pays homeowners to add deed restrictions to homes
- Breckenridge Grand Vacations, one of the largest employers in Summit County, seeks to develop Moose Landing for its employees
- Aspen – three new City of Aspen affordable housing developments underway to add more than 100 units
- Durango – How Durango’s ADU Policy is mitigating affordable housing issues
- Steamboat Springs – Milner Tiny Home proposal gets Routt County OK
- Summit County Housing Works initiative helps nearly 100 people find long term housing
Housing Needs Assessments
Eagle River Valley Housing Needs and Solutions (April 2018)
Town of Fraser Housing Needs and Development Study (May 2016)
Town of Winter Park Housing Needs Assessment (2015)
Housing Plan for the Study Areas of Granby, Grand Lake, Kremmling and Hot Sulphur Springs —September 2018
2018 Summit County Overview
Summit County Workforce Housing Demand Update (2016)
Greater Roaring Fork Regional Housing Study (2019)
Strategic Plans / Community Documents
Avon Community Housing Plan (2018)
Eagle County Housing Strategic Plan 2016
Silverthorne Strategic Housing Plan (2017)
Yampa Valley Housing Authority—Report to the Community (2018)
Vail Housing 2027
Town of Winter Park Attainable Housing Strategic Plan
Yampa Valley Housing Authority—Report to the Community (2018)