Parasites are killing mountain towns. The workers are de facto on strike because nobody who works your shit jobs can live here.
Have fun in your unlivable million dollar homes when the town struggles to fund basic services.
It's like an Ayn Rand fantasy, but brought to reality.
One possible solution discussed was allowing for more camping in the town, including relaxing current bans and finding other spaces that could provide more permanent places to camp.
Another major idea is the possibility for harsher penalties for short-term rental (STR) owners who violate their license, as well as limiting the number of licenses one company or owner can have.
“The bulk of the comments that I have received are from people who own condos in town who aren't here all the time, they're part-time locals, and they want to be able to short-term rent them when they're not here, which makes a lot of sense,” said Mayor Pro Tem Todd Brown. “But not when they've got four or five units, and that's where it starts to get really problematic.”
Christ. What insanity.
camping yeah right. "Finnnne I guess we'll let you be homeless. But only because we have to!"
Truly we are blessed to have leaders like these.
Hmm yes, today I will suggest camping in a Rocky Mountain winter to solve my town’s housing problem :wut:
How much longer until "company towns" are back with a brand new spin? They aren't run by companies but by towns and cities. From the tiny Telluride to the gigantic LA - company towns - are run by municipalities for the benefit of employers. And the plebs aren't even given actual housing. Instead tents and hot meals are provided. And no freeloaders! If there's a teen in the tent - he or she has got to work too.
They could be sold to the lib as "realistic". Also - nobody needs to commute 60+ minutes to work so they are "carbon neutral" too!
Lefty reporter: "So - in effect this is a 'company town'."
Lib mayor: "No. It is not a company town. How can it be? First of all - no company runs it. We run it. Second - it's a—"
Lefty reporter: "Tent favela?"
The annoyed mayor gives a head nod to the cops to remove the reporter.
Lib mayor: "It's a flextown so—"
Lefty reporter: "With scrip!" The reporter sees the cops coming. "I demand to remain as a member of the—" he's getting frogmarched out.
Lib mayor: "You are being disruptive.. That will not be tolerated for anyone. Okay, he's leaving... It's not 'scrip'. It's flexmoney..."
One possible solution discussed was allowing for more camping in the town, including relaxing current bans and finding other spaces that could provide more permanent places to camp.
So tent camps for internally displaced people?
Tahoe is having the same thing happen
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/19/tahoe-real-estate-soars-even-as-pandemic-eases/
https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/lake-tahoe-hiring-housing-crisis-16318055.php
https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/news/more-mountain-towns-taking-drastic-measures-to-address-housing-shortage/
Its happening in just about every mountain town I know.
"We had 115 job openings, full and part-time openings listed in different sources, and we only had one unit for rent,” said Troy Russ" in a town of 1,500. I don't know what that number typically is, but considering the reserve army of labor is supposed to be a sizable portion of the working class this is looking like a mini crisis of capitalism in these tiny towns.
In crisis the government does something extraordinary: it actually starts to do stuff. The struggle for housing is a primary issues throughout the USA at the moment, so whether the result be good or bad I think we should pay attention to what happens here as it may become the blueprint for cities & towns elsewhere.
It’s happening in a ski resort near my city too. Workers have to commute for like an hour just to get to their shitty resort or restaurant jobs
I remember in the before times when I’d occasionally get an Uber in SF, the drivers were already coming all the way from places like Sacramento and Dublin to make money. I wonder if the Bay Area folks moving outwards and pushing prices up over the last year is gonna start having an impact of the availability of non-rich workers in the Bay. The tech bros are gonna be unhappy
had several drivers say their standard was to come from several hours away to do rides all weekend and just sleep in their car for the two nights
Got to love the “opportunity rich” gig economy :deeper-sadness:
Lol I literally know a rich guy who's gonna be moving there cause CA is too lib
I live in the front range and it feels like this is the case with every ski town when I drive into/through the mountains.
You'll literally drive down I70, see multimillion mansions on one side and mobile homes on the other side. It's pretty horrifying.
i love multimillion dollar summer homes outside a town where most year round residents live in mobile homes
when corona travel restrictions were a thing out of state landlords ran campaigns against public health officials too
surprising how often this is relevant
well not that surprising really
