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PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. It's been out of control in the ski towns

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2024, 12:15 PM

Mar 2024

for several decades now.

When I lived in Colorado 1987-1990, Aspen and various other ski towns didn't have housing that most workers could afford. Not sure how they eventually solved that problem.

I live in Santa Fe, NM, and because no new apartments were built for at least 10 years, from about 2008 to 2018 (not sure the exact years) there was a shortage of more than 7,000 apartments. This in a city of some 88,000 people. I moved here in 2008, bought my small home the next year, lucky me.

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A 'cowboy ski town' where high earners can't afford a home faces a housing battle [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 OP

"You not rich? Blame yo'self." czarjak Mar 2024 #1

It really is completely out of control in all of the ski towns Bristlecone Mar 2024 #2

Relatives in Aspen. SarahD Mar 2024 #3

Look this up in Zillow or Redfin, etc. Bristlecone Mar 2024 #5

It's been out of control in the ski towns PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2024 #4

Should Steamboat build 2,264 homes for 6,000 workers? Voters get a say on Tuesday. mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 #6