Big Sky Community Housing Trust

Big Sky Community Housing Trust provides affordable and stable homes for residents.

COLD SMOKE NEIGHBORHOOD

Current Housing Opportunities

From rentals to ownership, we expand housing opportunities in Big Sky.

RiverView Apartments

BSCHT welcomed the first residents home to its portion of RiverView Apartments in 2024. Learn more about current rental opportunities at RiverView.

RIVERVIEW APARTMENTS
View of Big Sky Community

Rent Local

Earn cash and help house local workers with a long-term lease. Rent Local pairs homeowners with locals in need of stable, year-round housing.

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Homeownership List

Please join the ownership interest list if you work full-time in Big Sky and wish to purchase a deed-restricted home like MeadowView Condos.

OWNERSHIP INTEREST LIST

Good Deeds Program

Good Deeds helps local buyers purchase market-rate homes by contributing up to 20% of the purchase price. In exchange, buyers agree to a permanent deed restriction that keeps the homes preserved for Big Sky’s workforce.

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Looking Ahead

The Next Chapter: Cold Smoke Neighborhood

Voters approved it on May 6, 2025. Now, we’re building it. Cold Smoke will deliver 389 affordable homes for Big Sky’s workforce, with the first residents moving in as early as 2028.

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How do we create affordable homes?

LOCALS HOUSED SINCE 2020

RECLAIM

We create immediate housing by utilizing existing homes.

24

Good Deeds Restrictions

151

Rent Local Leases

BUILD

We build and steward permanently affordable homes.

52

MeadowView Condos Sold

25

RiverView Apartments Leased

Backstrom Family

“MeadowView has improved living in Big Sky by allowing many people who love this town to stay, including our family. It has provided a safe place to raise our family and plan for our future without worrying about a lease ending or a landlord kicking us out because they’re going to sell.”

MeadowView Homeowners

Mariel Butan

“Long-term solutions to the housing crisis are absolutely called for, but you could have the best plans and ideas for the future and still fail tremendously without short-term measures to help bridge the gap… I am so grateful for the Housing Trust for working not only on long-term solutions but also the critical short-term measures to help our community get by!”

Morningstar Learning Center Executive Director

Emilie & Greg

“The stars aligned when we were accepted into the Good Deeds program, which allowed us to make our down payment and close on an amazing home.”

Good Deeds Homeowners

Patrick

“My opportunity to purchase a MeadowView this year was my last chance to continue my plan to live and work in Big Sky.”

MeadowView Homeowner

Kristin Kern

“The Good Deeds program helps us to be a force for good in our ski town. BSCHT helped me help others. I am able to offer employees a home and a better way of life by being a part of the town’s propsperity.”

Hungry Moose Business Owner

Every home built or reclaimed represents a working neighbor who can stay in Big Sky. Explore ways to give and accelerate this success.

PARTNER WITH US

Why do Big Sky locals need homes? 

Everyone deserves a safe, stable place to call home. In Big Sky, that stability is increasingly out of reach.

Long-term rental vacancy in Big Sky remains effectively zero, leaving residents across income levels, from service workers to teachers earning some of the lowest starting salaries in the country, with few housing options.

At the same time, the cost of homeownership has climbed far beyond what local wages can support.

Since 2019, housing costs have surged far beyond local wages.

189%

Median single-family home price
$960,000 (2019) → $2.775M (2025)

126%

Median condo price
$429,613 (2019) → $970,000 (2025)

Source: Big Sky Country MLS. Figures reflect non-club residential sales.

Strategic Plan

Our 10-year targets include providing 1,000 homes reserved for Big Sky residents and securing $100,000,000 in community funding.

STRATEGIC PLAN

Flip through our 2024 Annual Report

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