A group of friends with deep roots in Colorado Springs found themselves having the same conversation.

Their grown children — working professionals with young families — wanted to move back to Colorado. They wanted to be close to family, and reconnect with the community they grew up in. The excitement faded when they discovered the housing market made a move impossible. Not because these families weren’t working hard or saving. But because the gap between what they earned and what ownership cost had slowly become too wide to cross. Reluctantly, they were forced to buy and live in other states.

And it’s not just them. The same door is closed for the essential workforce already here — the people staffing hospitals, responding to emergencies, keeping schools running, and keeping our communities safe and thriving. 

There is a whole class of people this community depends on who cannot afford to live here.

The questions at the kitchen table always came back to the same thing: why is there nothing in the market for this vital middle-class? What options exist between subsidized housing and market-rate housing? This group isn't looking for luxury living. They just want a real home at a price they can afford with a real path to ownership.

The 1840 Equity Project is the answer.
Designed around attainable ownership, community, and a conviction that the people who make a place vital deserve to live in it.

It's time to get people back around their own kitchen tables and reconnected to their communities and lives that feel meaningful.