Brown Ranch is the best option for providing housing for our working locals, and these businesses and nonprofits know it.
Please join them in voting YES for Brown Ranch.

Yampa Valley Community Foundation

For the course of our history, we have generally chosen not to endorse ballot measures, preferring instead to allow our actions speak for our values.  The Brown Ranch Annexation proposal compels us to take the unusual step of a public endorsement...we believe affordable housing is the most significant challenge impacting the Yampa Valley today.  The lack of safe, high quality, affordable housing results in a cascade of other issues that affect not only those directly experiencing housing insecurity, but negatively impacts the entire community…We hope our unanimous endorsement of a Yes vote on the measure encourages voters to learn the facts about Brown Ranch and support the process moving forward.

Integrated Community

The Brown Ranch project is seen as a linchpin for stability, attracting and retaining a diverse workforce essential for our region's growth. With workforce challenges underscored by an aging population and the exodus of young professionals, affordable housing is crucial. The collaboration between the city and YVHA represents a significant step forward, offering a path to success and financial safeguards.

Eagle Creek

For too long we’ve watched critical employees, and potential employees, struggle with finding and maintaining affordable housing in our community.  We believe Brown Ranch is a unique and vital opportunity to address this challenge and that YVHA has done an admirable job of involving stakeholders and partners in developing their plans.

 Town Hall Outdoor Company

We are grateful to the donors, community leaders, and voters who continue striving for affordable housing opportunities in this town, which has become unlivable for so many. We firmly believe that everyone deserves to live where they work, especially those who form the backbone of this community, such as nurses, line cooks, snowplow drivers, ski instructors, ski patrollers, dishwashers, business professionals, teachers, police officers, firefighters, and so many more. We want the Steamboat community to be a sustainable one and everyone deserves stability in their housing environment. Let’s help our local community see a future in Steamboat.

BAR-U-EAT

There is an immediate need to address housing in our community. Brown Ranch is an opportunity to make an impact and work toward a solution for our friends, families, co-workers, and everyone who wants to live and work in Steamboat Springs. 

Hala Gear

We have lost employees to housing issues. People are living in 2-bedroom apartments with 8 humans, all so they can work at the establishments that help create the Steamboat way of life. Brown Ranch annexation is just the beginning of the process - the vision for it will continue to be shaped by the community.

Yampa Valley Housing Authority Board of Directors

…the Brown Ranch property provides the community an unprecedented opportunity to create stable, affordable housing in the Yampa Valley and the Brown Ranch master plan outlines a phased development approach to meet the long-term housing needs of the local workforce and those retired from the local workforce. 

Steamboat Springs Chamber Board of Directors

…the number one concern identified among members was employee retention and attraction due to housing. There are multiple factors for the affordable housing crisis our community is facing, and we recognize there is no perfect solution to remedy it. We believe a good solution is now in the hands of voters with the annexation of the land known as Brown Ranch. We support the ballot initiative as we think the pros of annexation outweigh the consequences that delaying annexation would have on attainable and affordable housing.  

Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation

Steamboat Ski Resort supports the annexation of Brown Ranch as one component of a much larger, incredibly complex issue of providing affordable and attainable housing in Routt County…The core of the Steamboat Springs community’s workforce – teachers, police, firefighters, resort employees and small business owners and their employees – struggle to find housing within the market that currently exists. Our economy and quality of life depend on housing and Brown Ranch is not the silver bullet but is a key component to addressing both the short-term crisis and long-term need.