About the Headwaters Community Housing Trust
Headwaters is a community-based, not-for-profit organization committed to expanding the supply of permanent, below-market homes that local working households can afford to buy.
Next to Story Mill Community Park, Headwaters has created a neighborhood conceived by The Trust for Public Land and advanced by HRDC. With private investment and active support from local lenders, businesses, and the City of Bozeman, the Bridger View neighborhood includes 62 energy-efficient homes in a well-designed, walkable community.
Half of these homes were sold at prices that more working residents can afford. Through the community land trust model, these homes will remain priced below market rates in perpetuity.
The housing market
Addressing an unmet need
Bozeman needs more housing, but supply alone will not solve the issue. Bozeman needs more homes priced at levels that locals can afford.
Community and business leaders recognize the challenge and want to help. Headwaters is addressing Bozeman’s unmet need by:
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Providing businesses opportunities to invest in housing their employees can afford.
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Supplying a pool of prequalified buyers so developers creating community housing know high-quality, below-market homes will promptly sell.
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Creating permanently affordable homes that will serve generations of Gallatin Valley residents.
Our Values
Headwaters Community Housing Trust relies on seven organizational values that we embrace to meet our goals and fulfill our mission. Those values are:
Getting to Yes
We live out a spirit of possibility and individual empowerment.
Empathy
We strive to understand and value the lived experiences of partners, colleagues and clients.
Integrity
We take pride in the work that we’re doing; we hold each other accountable to our mission and values.
Fairness
We prioritize impartiality, respect, and honesty in communication and decision-making.
Grace
We hold goodwill and assuming best intent in our partners and colleagues.
Joy
We cultivate joyful collaboration in execution of our goals and mission.
Courage
We are brave and create space for creativity and leading edges. We embrace challenges, and are eager to ask “what if.”
Headwaters is so needed. We are seeing people get pushed further and further out of Bozeman. Surrounding communities used to be relief valves, but now they, too, are struggling with surging home prices. As a result, many people are moving out of the state. These are the folks we count on every day when we go to the grocery store or to the doctor’s office, send our kids to school — people who are looking after our health and safety. Without this core, Bozeman will lose the character and strength we have all come to love. Having Headwaters facilitate housing that keeps our workforce here is critical.
Mark Meissner
ERA Landmark
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Support your community
Housing affordability is at a critical juncture. It is a community-wide problem that requires community-wide participation. By supporting the Headwaters Community Housing Trust today, you can be part of the solution.
