Community housing trust converting historic Hailey hotel into affordable workforce housing [Video]

HAILEY, Idaho — Blaine County is certainly known for its mountains – along with housing prices that are just as steep. To help address that issue, a local community housing trust is renovating a piece of Hailey’s history to turn into affordable workforce housing.

The Inn at Ellsworth Estate is an old building providing a new solution for a tough challenge for the city to summit: a shortage of affordable housing.

Located in the heart of Hailey, the inn was first a single-family residence in the 1900s. It was converted into a bed and breakfast with 11 hotel rooms. The property went on the market last year, and could have been turned into high-end housing, but the City of Hailey had other ideas.

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