Proposed Teacher Housing Project In Basalt Could Be A ‘Game Changer’

By Matt Kroschel
BASALT, Colo. (CBS4) – A groundbreaking idea could lead to a Colorado school district providing the land for Habitat for Humanity to build homes for teachers.
The housing crunch in many mountain communities including in the Roaring Fork Valley has school districts scrambling to figure out how to get teachers to work in those expensive communities where average rents are comparable to East Coast cities but salaries are not.
The potential partnership could produce 40 afforda