'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.

  • 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.