Creating and Preserving Affordable Housing for Methow Valley Residents
Our Mission
The Methow Housing Trust develops and preserves affordable, quality housing for residents of the Methow Valley.
Our Approach
The two pillars of our approach are affordability and permanence. We follow the Community Land Trust model, and are committed to being around in perpetuity to ensure the houses we build are affordable forever.
The Need
For many Methow Valley residents, the stability and benefits of home-ownership are forever out of reach. As the Valley grows and changes, living wages cannot keep pace with dramatically increasing real estate values, leaving more and more Valley households in unsustainable living situations.
Over the past 5 years, median real estate sale values have been outpacing wage increases more than 4:1
The 2025 median home price in the Methow Valley was $595,000. The household income required to purchase a home at that price is roughly 2.5x the average household income for a family of 2
The outpacing of home prices to wage growth means that affordably priced homes in the Methow Valley are continually critical
