July 2025

Let’s celebrate Legacy Lodge!

Legacy Lodge will be home for up to 99 locals soon! We are so excited to celebrate this housing win for our community.

Here are some of the major benefits of this project:

  • 100% permanently deed-restricted: only locals will be eligible to live in Legacy Lodge!
  • Occupancy requirements: the deed restrictions on Legacy Lodge require the units be occupied within 60 days of officially opening; if not, owners will need to lower rents
  • Below-market rents: for example, the average rental rate for a studio in Teton County is over $3k; studios at Legacy Lodge are $2,350
  • No public dollars invested: it’s rare to find a housing solution that doesn’t require a hefty investment of limited public dollars
  • Ample community space: the commercial kitchen, gathering spaces and bike paths will enhance occupants’ livability
  • Meets county-imposed habitability requirements

Hats off to community members, elected officials, and the property owners for being a part of this step in the right direction.

Sticker shock at The Loop

Sticker shock at a development like the Loop is real! This complex will have about 58 market-rate units, 119 workforce units and 17 affordable units.

Workforce units are based on employment only and do not have income/asset limits or occupancy requirements. Ownership units have capped appreciation rates so as Workforce homes stay in the deed-restricted housing pool, they become more affordable over time.

Developers are required to lease Workforce units 60 days after they receive their certificate of occupancy, so we could see these prices decline. Either way, there will only be locals living in these deed-restricted homes. Stay tuned!

Hitching Post housing on the way!

New housing for hospital employees coming to the Hitching Post thanks to $24 million voters approved for this project on the 2022 SPET ballot. Read on for more information here.

Commissioners file motion to dismiss

Teton County’s housing mitigation program is under attack once again.⁠ While mitigation fees have held up in court repeatedly, a local family is suing the County over a $24,000 mitigation fee on their new ~4,000 square foot home. The Commissioners recently filed a motion to dismiss the case. We support the mitigation program which is based on the Nexus Study and is a critical source of income for deed-restricted housing projects. The program has been targeted again and again—we’ll see what happens in court!

Hot Topics in Housing

ShelterJH members share relevant media pieces with one another through our Google Group. Here are what our conversations have been about this month: