'The emergency siren is wailing': Telluride housing crisis reaches a new pitch
www.rmpbs.org
Telluride is the latest mountain town in the midst of a housing crisis. Ouray, Pagosa Springs and Frisco are among the others struggling with similar issues.

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.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    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

    • Pavlichenko_Fan_Club [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • Oso_Rojo [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      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

    • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      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

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        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