An investment in our public schools is one of the best ways to ensure a bright future for Jackson Hole.

Teton County School District #1 (TCSD) not only provides extraordinary educational opportunities for our children and support for local families, it also serves as a keystone of the community.

But we need your help. Last year, more than 60 TCSD staff members resigned from the district and the number one reason given was a lack of affordable or attainable housing. That’s nearly 10% of the district staff lost in a single year. At the same time, our community is growing with some studies estimating that student enrollment could nearly double in the next decade.

How can you stop teachers from leaving and ensure that every child has the extraordinary education they deserve? Join us in supporting TCSD Staff Housing.

This exciting project kicks off in the 2023-2024 school year with the first of three planned 24 unit low-cost rental complexes, the first of which is now in the design phase and soon to break ground. Each building will contain one, two, and three bedroom units with storage, onsite parking, and shared outdoor space. The buildings have been designed for sustainability, livability, and low impact on the surrounding community.

$16 million in SPET funding has already been secured for phase one of this project, but additional funding is crucial to ensure that subsequent phases and housing opportunities can move forward quickly enough to meet the critical need our staff and teachers face. With your help, we can ensure that every TCSD teacher and staff member has the opportunity to build a career and future here, bringing their amazing talents to serve our students, and strengthen our schools for years to come.

Charlotte Reynolds, TCSD’s Executive Director of Communications and District Services, put it best. “The future of our schools and the quality of education in our community depends on the district’s ability to attract and retain great teachers. Providing attainable and sustainable housing is one of the best ways we can do that.”

Donations to TCSD Staff Housing can be made through TBOR's Community Housing Fund, or through the Fund for Public Education, TCSD’s nonprofit school foundation. Learn more about this project at FundForPublicEducation.org and please give today.

For over 32 years, the Community Housing Trust has been dedicated to innovative solutions that will help efficiently address our community’s housing crisis. To date, we have served more than 670 people in 185 homes and we currently have 20 units under construction.

On Deck: Nelson Drive. On a 7.5 acres USFS administrative parcel in east Jackson, the Community Housing Trust and Bridger Teton National Forest have an opportunity to develop affordable rental housing for essential employees in Teton County. Nelson Drive represents a new model for public/private partnership that was made possible when the Department of Agriculture issued the first 30-year Special Use Permit in the nation to the Housing Trust. This partnership leverages land contributed at no cost with the development expertise of a not-for profit affordable housing developer. Upon completion, this innovative public/private partnership can become a replicable model for Forests in Wyoming and across the nation to address the ever-increasing deficit of Affordable housing.

Project Details:

• 35 Affordable Rental Units in 13 buildings; a mix of one- and two-bedroom units.
• Employees of the BTNF will have the first option to rent one-third of the units.
• Development Team: CLB Architects, Agrostis Land Planners, Nelson Engineering
• Modular construction will help keep costs low without sacrificing design or durability.

With the generous support of realtors, buyers and sellers through the TBOR Community

Housing Fund, we can keep our critical workforce in our community and protect the essential services that make Jackson the home we know and love.

Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area, incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 1995, builds safe, decent, affordable homes for the working families of our community. Teton Habitat is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International. Though we receive technical, branding and training assistance from HFHI, our operations are guided by a local board of directors. We are responsible for raising our own operating and construction funding.

We build homes using primarily volunteer labor with materials purchased or donated through local or national partnerships. Our houses are sold at no profit to qualified buyers making less than 80% of the Area Median Income with a zero-interest loan provided by Teton Habitat.

Prospective homeowners are carefully selected based on three critical criteria: need for housing; ability to pay a monthly mortgage; and willingness to partner with us to do the work. Home buyers are required to volunteer 500 hours of “sweat equity” towards the completion of their home. Home buyers are also required to complete financial education and homeownership education classes.

As of January 2025, Teton Habitat has started construction of the third and final phase of 18 townhomes on E Kelly Ave. The Parkside at Benson-Brown Station development is a partnership between Teton Habitat and the Jackson/Teton County Housing Department.  All 18 deserving families have been selected to purchase these homes.   

Stable, affordable housing is critical to the health and wellbeing of our homeowners and our community. Your donation to Teton Habitat will change lives!

The Teton County Idaho Joint Housing Authority (“Teton Valley Housing Authority'') is an independent agency formed by the cities of Driggs, Victor, Tetonia, and Teton County, Idaho, that facilitates the development of diverse, permanently affordable housing options for the Teton Valley community. The Authority’s Housing Supply Fund is used to build permanently affordable housing. Other contributions to the Fund may include public, private, and nonprofit sources, including philanthropic gifts.

The Teton Valley Housing Authority is pursuing the development of permanently deed-restricted affordable housing in Driggs and Victor. The 34-unit Depot Square mixed-use rental project will be the first to break ground in 2022 in Driggs. This will be followed by affordable housing development on lands donated by the City of Victor and Teton County. The Housing Supply Fund will provide any project proforma gap funding necessary to ensure permanent affordability. Once construction is complete, affordability restrictions compliance will be managed by the Authority. Tax-deductible charitable gifts to the Authority’s Housing Supply Fund will allow the Authority to expedite these projects and address the crisis-level shortage of affordable housing and its effects on the local economy, society, and environment.

The Teton Valley Housing Authority and its partners take a regional approach to addressing the community’s housing needs. To that end, the Authority has partnered with the Teton County Wyoming Affordable Housing Department in funding and steering an updated regional Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) for Jackson Hole, Teton Valley, and Star Valley. Data from this updated HNA will be used to guide the Authority’s priorities and respond to regional issues.

Thank you for considering a donation to support construction of deed-restricted affordable housing in Teton Valley!

Jackson/Teton County Affordable Housing Department is currently partnering on six projects that will bring 189 new Affordable and Workforce homes to the market over the next few years.

Purpose: The Housing Department is a joint Town & County department tasked with partnering with private sector developers to build new Affordable and Workforce housing. To do this, the Department typically provides land for new developments in exchange for deed restrictions. Currently the Department is providing land for six new developments that will create 189 new Affordable and Workforce Homes. The Department also provides down payment assistance to members of the local workforce who are buying a non-deed restricted home in exchange for a Workforce deed restriction being recorded on the property at closing. Gifts to the Housing Department will be placed in the Housing Authority Supply Fund for land acquisition for Affordable and Workforce development and down payment assistance for local working households. Current projects include King Street Condos, Mercill Condos, Kelly Place Condos, Jackson Street Apartments, Flat Creek Apartments, and 445 E. Kelly Avenue Townhomes.