Winter Park's housing crisis
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Sparkling, powdery snow glistens atop picturesque mountains as visitors drive into Winter Park, where a winding mountain road leads into town and you can see skiers carving down slopes. The views are idyllic. The ski resort, and world-famous mountain biking, make Winter Park - which sits 66 miles from Denver - a popular destination for visitors and outdoor enthusiasts.
And Jordan Gonzales will do anything to keep living in town - even work four jobs.
“It’s peaceful up here,” Gonzales said. “You don’t get that in the city.”
Gonzales, who has lived in Winter Park for five years, works at a local grocery store, the Winter Park Resort, a a bed-and-breakfast and also does snow removal for Moon Frog Coffee, a local cafe. There, he trades maintenance work for discounted rent on his apartment out back.
Working all the time is draining, Gonzales said, but it’s a requirement to afford rent in Winter Park. Gonzales knows he could move somewhere else with a cheaper cost of living, but giving up daily snowboarding for affordability would be bad for his mental health, Gonzales said.
Still, he knows the cards of housing in a ski town are stacked against those without money.
“It's a ski town,” Gonzales said. “It’s for the wealthy.”
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This has been a problem for decades. Isn’t greed awesome. Get a clue ski resorts.
Find a picture of Telluride in the 70's and contrast it with even the 90's, money discovered all smaller mountain towns. 7/8ths of the luxury homes are not occupied. The towns and housing in general are just equity play toys for a few.
Airbnbs, retirees and lack of any housing in the Colorado mountain towns has been and will continue to be an issue.
They seem to find plenty space for mansions and luxury condos.
No normal people can afford to live in Richie Richville.
Just let the workers live with the millionaires that have houses there.
Or in the countless houses nobody is actually living in half of the year?