Ouray County commissioners agreed to give $500,000 to one nonprofit affordable housing project and at least $100,000 to another, after multiple discussions on the funding requests.

Paradox Community Trust, the nonprofit behind the Rural Homes project launched last year by the Telluride Foundation, requested half a million dollars from the county for the Ouray Waterview Homes project.

The organization received a $1.9 million loan from the state to purchase nine acres north of the Biota building, an...