CHEYENNE – Communities across the state are lacking in workforce housing, defined as homes affordable to middle-income people.
Experts cite many reasons for Wyoming’s housing crisis, and an overregulated environment for builders is among them. In 2023, local residents protested and ultimately derailed a plan by a Cheyenne developer who wanted to build an apartment complex with exercise facilities, a swimming pool and up to 195 units as workforce housing. Following a zoning protest that spurred a required supermajority City Council vote, those apartments were never built.
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