EBS STAFF
The Big Sky Community Housing Trust
is offering a free eight-hour Home Buyer Education Class on July 27 in the Big
Sky Water and Sewer District conference room from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The class is
the first step to get on the affordable workforce housing waitlist that allows
qualified applicants to purchase subsidized housing, such as the deed-restricted
Meadowview Condominiums under construction adjacent to the Big Sky Community
Park.
The waitlist and Meadowview units
are designed for those who work and live in Big Sky but can’t afford to
purchase a home or apartment at market rates.
The second step to get on the
waitlist is one-on-one financial counseling with an HRDC representative, after
which applicants are added to the waitlist and will be given the opportunity to
buy in the order of the date in which they were put on the list.
As some applicants have dropped off
the list, the number of available Meadowview units, 52, exceeds the number of
qualified applicants on the waitlist, according to housing trust program
director Laura Seyfang.
“If you don’t get into this
project, you’re the first on the list for the next project,” she said. “If you
ever think you’ll want to buy deed-restricted housing … it’s worth taking the
class.”
Register with Roselle Shallah by
calling (406) 585-4895 or by emailing homeownership@thehrdc.org.
