The town of Shoshoni received a grant from the Wyoming Business Council earlier this year to make the town more suitable for housing expansion. Officials cited the Wyoming Mushroom Farm as one reason to have local housing. The Shoshoni Motel will be demolished to make room for a new housing project.
Christopher Kojima, Shoshoni’s treasurer and Chief of police, said the new housing will be subsidized. But he’s careful not to call it affordable housing, which he said has a bad connotation.
“We're building and constructing housing that's affordable for the local workforce, to support our town and projects and the jobs that we have in our town, while also allowing families to live here,” he said.
Kojima said he hopes the new housing will be constructed in 2023. The demolition of the Shoshone Motel will move forward in the next couple weeks.