Rural Homes News and Updates
12.17.24- Rural Homes Featured In High Impact Philanthropy Toolkit
The Center for High Impact Philanthropy’s annual giving toolkit provides individual donors and professional grantmakers with actionable guidance for high impact giving year-round.
11.14.24- Waterview Homes- Two Needs, One Project
Ouray County is wrangling with dual affordable housing and child care crises. Waterview Homes aims to make a dent in both.
7.27.23- Featured childcare article, final part of a 3-part series
In a Hostile Housing Landscape, Solutions Emerge to Support Home-Based Child Care Providers
7.27.23- Wetterhorn affordable housing neighborhood takes shape
Wetterhorn Homes are set onto their foundations, ground broken in Ouray.
3.16.23- Ouray Housing Gets More Funding
State awards another $8M for Waterview Homes; building could start this spring
1.11.23- Ouray Planning and Zoning Approves Housing Project
Waterview project would add up to 70 homes in north Ouray
11.30.22- Pinion Park homes arriving
Development nears completion
11.23.22- Wetterhorn Homes completes fall construction schedule
Home information and interested buyer website launched
11.8.22- “The future of housing” takes shape at Buena Vista factory
A housing crisis solution with modular homes, philanthropy, unique lending and free land is threatened by local zoning and code regulations
10.16.22- Housing Lottery: Inside a manufactured neighborhood fighting Colorado’s high country housing crisis
At Norwood’s Pinion Park, a model to make homes affordable for paycheck-to-paycheck residents is put to the test
8.16.22- “At a crisis point”: Homes are out of reach for many Colorado teachers. What does that mean for schools?
A new report highlights how houses have become too expensive for teachers and other workers. Raising wages alone won’t fix the affordability issue.
7.16.22- Pinion Park home prices announced
Homes for the local workforce start at $225,000
5.19.22- Pinion Park housing project already attracting qualified buyers
Lottery now scheduled for August 31st
3.29.22- Pinion Park Subdivision Breaks Ground
Community partners celebrate workforce housing
2.28.22- In Housing-Starved Kit Carson, Coloradans Band Together to Find a Solution
Read more about a similar project to that of Rural Homes, using the same prefabricated housing supplier: Fading West.
1.28.22- Norwood’s Pinion Park Project Moves Forward
Website launched for interested buyers
12.29.21- Telluride Foundation’s Housing Initiative Moves from Concept to Reality
Plans for Norwood, Ridgway and Ouray in the works
12.16.21- Video- Colorado Voices: Mountain Town Housing Crisis
An informative video on the problem mountain towns are facing across the State of Colorado: Increasing housing prices, rent, construction costs, more remote workers and short-term rental (STR) properties have created an environment that is making our state’s beloved…
10.19.21- Informative Webinar That Describes The Project
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Find out more about the specific sites that the Rural Homes project aims to develop, as well as gain some insights into the motivation behind starting the project.
10.18.21- Bringing Affordable Homes to Rural Communities, Colorado Builder’s Magazine
Read the featured article in Colorado Builder’s Magazine by clicking the link above
10.8.21- A Great 4-Minute Listen on the Project, KOTO Local Radio
Telluride’s local radio news organization, KOTO, recently released the above story that expands upon how the project works and the different partners involved.