Priced out: Sedona workers sleeping in cars
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- čas přidán 30. 03. 2024
- Due to high rents, those working in Sedona are struggling to afford rent. Some people opt to sleep in their vehicles. The City of Sedona has established the "Safe to Park" program to provide a safe place for people who are living in their cars.
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This is a problem all across the U.S. as rents become unaffordable.
All across the West really. I just don't understand how it got this damn bad when it's such a small portion of the population that has the money to pay these prices.
@@Liz-wz8dh Zoning. In Asian countries houses don't increase in value (unless they're in the perfect location). When people buy a house, they knock down the old house and build a new one. A home is purely a place to live in and raise a family.
New Biden America
during the pandemic interest rates near zero. so many people got a cash out loan and bought a rental property with a lower payment. They are now Air B and B. totally empty most of the time but making the house payment easily with that LOW RATE.....all this happened withing a few months. Before that we had no housing crisis.
I live in California and we’re seeing the same here! It’s ridiculous!
This is normal in America. Pretty soon we will be a nation of car sleepers since rent is unaffordable.
Like camping for a living..
It is not new. I know people that had to do that in the 1990s. A couple in their 40s with both working in the upper midwest.
They already are
@@JBoy340a In the 90s people could afford a house or an apartment. This is entirely different but thanks for your boomer take.
@@MarkWongMD the people I refer to could not afford rent or home payments. Again this is not new. We have major depressions in 1920s and 30s. It is cyclical.
This is sick. Are working-class folks supposed to be homeless now? Are housing and food to become luxury items in the land of the free? America is broken.
It sure is BROKEN and anyone who would vote for these monsters is not an American.
It will get so much worse over the next 10yrs.
You hit the nail on the head, that’s what our current government is wanting
@@chooch_mcgee I'm afraid you are correct. Hunger games?
its because of the buying up of land and short term rentals being allowed
Just leave, make them take care of themselves and not have the amenities and services that the working class that provides.
Exactly!! Those employers in Sedona can afford to pay more than $19 hr. Those businesses are making a lot of money. Sedona is a very popular tourist destination, and has been for years.
Leave to go struggle in another city? Plenty of people to keep them company on the streets of Phoenix.
Heartless bastard.
@@juju-xx5xn Get housing out of the hands of corporations.
Or change the law in Arizona that will allow workers to unionize.
Affordable housing is not sleeping in one's car.
wheres the affordable housing?
It is now.
I slept in my car in the early 1980’s because my car loan I couldn’t afford after I lost my job while going to a college. It’s a dangerous way to live. Cops don’t like to see anyone sleeping in their vehicle. The serial killer was causing a lot of fear in California back then too.
Freaking move away, your car is already packed. Don’t slave away for rich people, they don’t deserve your labors. ✌️🙂🖖
Exactly
They'll just replace yah with illegals.
They have NO place to go. Every city in every state is suffering from getting priced out of the homes they grew up in. Everyone is under the housing crisis. No more affordable housing for the majority
Need in-demand skills to survive. Nimby codes make everything near employers impossibly expensive. But still need money to survive while obtaining skills. Almost as if we need to prioritize community over profit
This is a place for hippies. It’s a “spiritual” zone
This is the America I served. I can't even afford to live here.
Imagine fighting for corporate Billionaires.
Bidenomics in action
@@nfr333 get with the program moron its rich vs poor and your poor stop dividing and start coming up with solutions
@@jeffs4483Veterans hate that truth. 😂
Don't worry, Repugnants will elect some trailer trash like BoBO to solve all their [ I mean your] problems...
Of course it’s a doctor who’s single-handedly preventing needed workers from sleeping in their cars FIVE miles out of town.
Uppity
Greed
on top of wasting SEVERAL MONTHS of taxpayer dollar on the brilliant idea.
This guy is giving docs a bad name… but lots of people can call themselves doctors. It’s usually the ones that are not medical doctors that love to flaunt their credentials. Not all of them are a-holes. Some actually give a crap about other people and want to help their community.
Damn straight... He probably views people like that as garbage.
How sad. This is the new norm everywhere now.
1789 France is looking pretty great right about now.
Very sad. :(
And the politicians are not even addressing it. Local, state or federal. We need to make it a nationwide issue politically! Let's make them address it!!
@@juju-xx5xn Because when politicians do try and address it, they get voted out because the voter base doesn't want to allow for more housing or things to lower rents/costs. This is the consequence of regular people thinking that housing is a speculative asset rather than a commodity. Things that can address this: Changing zoning, eliminating parking minimums, reducing the approval process, preventing frivolous lawsuits that delay building and increase costs, are all very unpopular with people who vote regularly.
@@juju-xx5xn Amen. He says it addresses the housing crisis but it doesn't. It's a Band-Aid at best. You want to address the housing crisis you find a way to make housing that working people can afford. I live all the way across the country and we have the same issue. A studio apartment starts at $1,500. Studio.
You cannot have your cake amd eat it too.!! If you want service then provide housing. The disconnect is insulting, they dont care for the employees.
Why do that when illegals will do the job far cheaper and live 20 to a 1 bedroom apartment?
It’s not about paying a higher wage entirely. Hire wages causes all the prices to go up. Which would make things worse
Its inflation. Ever since the US removed the gold standard from the Dollar 💵 it’s caused inflation. The dollar loses its buying power. Which means you need more money to buy the same product.
The AIRBNB has caused a supply in demand for rentals. That shot the rental prices up significantly.
Flipping homes. Every time an investors flips a home, that home becomes more expensive. The next buyer has a higher mortgage to pay than the previous which causes the higher rent prices.
At this point, its better to buy a Toyota Tacoma, and converted into a livable space like an RV to survive
Exactly, if the workers move elsewhere due to being homeless all the amenities these rich people want will be shut down.
That's sad when a community thinks it's doing a kind thing by letting workers sleep in their cars. What about more affordable housing?
Affordable housing = ghetto.
It's the truth and you know it
Exactly what I was thinking
Yes
This is just temporary. They will all be millionaires soon and everyone will live in a mansion.
💯💯💯
And then they'll arrest you for living in your car, making you, once a contributing citizen into a criminal. And when you can't pay the fines because you keep getting them for sleeping in your car. You'll just end up in prison. Just get the hell out of there and leave them with no employees to run their business' that afford them Lamborghini's and a vacation home in the Hamptons. They'll change their tune.
FACTS!!!!
The city has no control over the spiritual beings an energy if ur in tune with that energy u will be protected by this high level of consciousness knowledge awareness enlightenment energy an will be invisible to cops an harm in deep meditation my ancestors are very spiritual an will not let any corrupt government affiliates harm my existence onky criminals there are the rich people should not even have to pay to live a life do u think the indigenous Indians payed to live on land that was once there home no it's simple to understand that the business giants an government are the real enemy the police protect the rich the rich should be sleeping in cars not the working class people should not be treated that way
They can't arrest you for sleeping in your car idiot. They will tell you you have to leave before arrest even if considered
@@teddyjinks The energy cost there is higher than the housing.
It's already like this in Florida, you get a ticket for sleeping in your vehicle.
Only in Sedona? Really? You should see the rest of the US. Homelessness is rampant.
To think I can actually end up like that. I am so thankful right now for what little I have. At least I have a roof over my head, even if it's only a mobile home roof. The Roman civilization fell apart. The U.S. itself is going to end up like that. Only heaven knows what will take it's place.
Dang shame. Working full time and only being able to afford to sleep in your car.
Wow you need permission to be homeless now. And it costs 850,000$ a year! wow! this is disgusting.
bidenomics
They’ll find a way to even tax the homeless someday.
We dont under pay but our employees cant afford a house.....ya buddy...you do under pay
Anyplace beautiful where the super-rich decide to move to, becomes a hell hole for everyone else. Everyone who works in Billings Montana where Dick Cheney and Harrison Ford live, are housed in a single high rise homeless shelter. There is no place affordable in the entire town.
I luv how they claim the most desireable places for themselves and pitch out the "riff raff."
Gotta love Cheney. His last big paycheck came from the farce that was Iraq and Harrison Ford is a dolt for marrying that bag of bones.
The employees just need to leave that place, let it rot, without workers that place will fall apart quick!
The businesses will then import illegal migrants to do as many of those jobs as they can. Arizona probably has a million of them to choose from.
And where will they go that is better? Las vegas has this issue so does Phoenix.
@@JBoy340a Anywhere else is better, than that place!
@@JBoy340a And I have been living Las Vegas for the past 21 Years, and there is no shortage of housing here if your working. You may not be able to afford a mansion on a regular worker salary, but you can still get a place to live, have savings, and still afford whatever else you need. Sedona just sounds like a bunch of wealthy snobs that thumb their nose at the workers, who are the ones that really get everything done, and yet the same wealthy that control that town provide no housing opportunities for the workers.
You won't find that here in Las Vegas!
Yep, but it won't happen. Always complaining, but doing nothing about it.
How generous of them to let the sleep in their cars.
They(the rich citizens) don't even want them to do that.
@@travisgarrett9398 Hate the rich, bet you are an over achiever, or maybe closer to an under achiever.
@@EllsworthJohnson-ui1xm he is not wrong. Rich people would sentence poor people to death and make poverty a capital crime if they could. It’s already been proven
Now Arizona is getting too damned expensive for both the middle class and the working poor. I wouldn’t be surprised that private equity firms have bought a lot of houses in Sedona. This is disgusting 🤢.
Probably true. Each state needs to enact laws that don't allow corporations to own single family units.
they are now asking for renters to make 3 to 5 times the rent to qualify
@@wisdomandlove1661 Holy crap. I've seen 3 as the highest but damn anything above that is just being evil.
That's what's going on in a lot of the Country ☹️.....
Black rock I’m sure
Welcome to Portland economy 2015... Ive been living in a van for five years. Left the PNW three years ago.
Your being Californiaized... Enjoy.
Im taking a train to San Francisco in 2 days. I was debating Portland. San Diego is tempting.
San Diego is dangerous. Schizophrenics all over downtown sleeping on the sidewalks.
I have lived in washington state all my life. Is so expensive here now. Starter houses are 400k. My grandmother's small house sold for 99k in 2002. It's now worth $400k. I wo t be able to afford to live here when I hot retirement
@@beng4647go outside the city limits and commute. Or else you'll be broke trying to pay in those cities.
Cars have benefits over vans
Dumb rich people...
Who’s the ones living in cars again 🤣😂😂😂 dumb poors 😂😂😂
Smarter than you.
@@NosebergEatzbugsVonShekelsteinyum yum. Boot taste good
Dumb poor people… thinking they could work in a high income community and afford to live there. (See you can play this game both ways)
Born in the right situation more like it@@NosebergEatzbugsVonShekelstein
There is no “somewhere else” anymore. Communities need to plan for where workers will live and commute for now.
It's not just there, most of Arizona is too expensive
There are worse places than Sedona. For example, Oakland in California and part of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
@@BruceMilpitas or just name any liberal city
@@BruceMilpitas what about New York?
@@dogie8c Only visited there several times. Can’t say.
Some people can’t even afford a car or to maintain a vehicle (tags, insurance, oil changes, new tires and breakdowns).
Just had my 1st (LAST!) breakdown.
Wiped me OUT.
~ 🦋
Good thing they're letting all the people across the boarder. They don't mind working for less and living 20 to a home.
Republicans have never passed a border policy just for that reason. They have all the Fox 'lying heads" tell the cult that Dems/ Biden is ruining America, while private equity is buying up single family homes and allowing more green cards like the help at Mar-A-Lardo....and the MAGA cult swallows the Kool-Aid.
Just get a 3rd, 4th, or 5th job. Lazy people.
Sleep is for degenerates. lol
Teachers, firefighters and police officers cannot afford to live in these towns !
There's people with college degree's working 2 to 3 minimum wage jobs interviewing for companies who make them go through 5 -7 rounds of interview steps, just to get ghosted or not hired.
In the law office I worked at we would get applicants with degrees applying for clerical positions, the office manager didn't hire them because she knew they would leave as soon as they got an offer in their chosen field. So, when applying for a job have more than one resume and leave out all the stuff you want to brag about achieving if you just want some job to hold you over until something better comes along.
While if all of the restaurant/ hotel and retail workers left Sedona I'm sure they would come up with a plan for housing but then I'm sure they would have no problem letting them sleep in their vehicles.
Most of those workers are so poor they can't afford to leave. That's the saddest part.
Other workers would replace them. There are a lot of people looking for work.
@@JBoy340a
That is true.
yup bringin the migrantrs....
@@hppavilionf50 then they arer useless
The cruelty of the haves, is mind-blowing.....
apparently all of those crystals & energy vortexes still doesn't give rich sedona citizens any more understanding of the struggles of working class people.
Right!?! Clearly, they are not expanding their heart chakra's with compassion and unconditional love. ❤️
You will know them by their fruits. We are in the end days of Babylon.
A hard-working individual should never have to resort to sleeping in their car. This reminds me of Aspen Colorado years ago when workers could not afford to live there either. We need safe, clean, nice affordable, housing for middle class workers. In this country you either need to be very poor to get everything or you need to be very rich. Somethings terribly wrong with this picture
Aspen sucks!
Face, those workers want to live in those resort areas, they do not have to, they want to. So, go somewhere else, apply your skills and earn some money, then return.
every where is getting priced out or already there
It's the whole country
Yeah, the car park isn't ideal, but I'm gonna guess the current homeowners who oppose it also don't want low income housing in the town and certainly don't want to wait more than two minutes for their barista to take their order either.
This is happening in California as well even with the new $20.00 a hour minimum wage people can’t afford to rent. This happened during the last depression as well, just no one wants to acknowledge what is happening.
$20 is for fast food workers, and will lead to fewer workers. I saw a McDonald's in the midwest that only had 2 people in it. Drive through was the only way to get food after 7 PM. Automate burger, fry, and drink machines. One person at the windows taking money and handing out food. The other loading and supervising the machines.
@@JBoy340a walk up to the counter and no one is there to take your order. And now a burger fries and a medium drink are already over $12. When the government controls food, water and utilities the government controls the American people and we move to large scale Slavery. Or in other words you owe your sole to the government store.
And Texas too.
So very kind of them to let their help sleep in their cars between shifts of slaving away for rich a$$holes.
Unfortunately, Sedona is a Beautiful, Fantastic Tourist “Sh*t Show! Being loved to death by Tourists. Why not build a Tiny Home Community in West Sedona for Teachers, Medical Workers, Restaurant and Hospitality Workers and Police and Fire Employees. The City could use their Shuttles to Bring them to work and bring them home. C’mon Sedona! Don’t be so greedy!
Are you a Socialist, son? 😂😂😂
@@eattherich9215 Jeez, you must be of the old brigade. most Americans don't even understand the term.
That went right over your head. I keep forgetting that you cannot convey irony on the internet and especially not to Americans.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the same people who are fighting them just sleeping in their cars outside of town would fight that too.
Why? Illegals do the same job for far less and the rich don't have to care one bit about their workers well being.
This is another result of the greed ideology, it's occurring in most resort towns. Ultimately all employees for ALL businesses should just walk away.
Nothing is keeping that from happening, except the people who are complaining.
Yeah, just walk away. That works for about two weeks, when you need groceries again, gas again, and at least half of your bills are due. What was that? Just use my savings?
WHAT savings???
When this happens in California, the internet trolls go on a tear, blaming Newsom and Pelosi. Well, this is a nationwide problem. Who will the blame now?
Most of the rich tards moving in are California liberals so try again
This. It’s been happening everywhere in the US. But of course LA and NY being the biggest metropolitan got the most media regarding homelessness. I live in Phoenix and there are homeless people everywhere near downtown Phoenix.
@@njfblh2 True. Proportionate to populating, homeless might be the same. 50,000 homeless in L.A. is equivalent to 50 homeless in a small town.
Biden
BIDEN / obummer
The workers cannot afford to live there so lawmakers want to make it legal to live in their vehicles? Why do people put up with abuse?
I stopped voting years ago. Total scam.
It’s been a huge problem. I think it really accelerated after Airbnb bill took hold in Arizona.
I come from working at ski towns. Airbnb destroyed all of those..
The solution is safe parking so they can monitor the 40 "approved" homeless...... My anger grows more and more by the day. I no longer feel sorry for the upcoming Judgement of Humanity.... I will not shed a tear as i have already shed many 😠
And judgement is definitely imminent.
Let the workers leave. Inflated prices from housing to food all over AZ.
Those who can afford to live there will just have to start working the menial jobs or pick up extra work to cover for those who can't afford to be there.
This is all by design. Cities and towns get greedy for taxes when $$$ starts showing up. This is why you should vote and run for local positions.
But all the new arrival illegals need work too so what a mess.
The seasonal help at Martha's Vineyard actually camps in the wooded areas, with no running water or bathroom facilities. Been like that from the beginning,no plan to do anything about it. It's the norm and tolerated.
The key word there is 'tolerated'. Almost nowhere in the U.S. 'tolerates' workers living in their vehicles.
Same at a lot of resort towns. And not new. A relative worked in a resort city in the midwest in the 80s and described the same conditions.
Same thing happened in Jackon WY…
Same thing is happening everywhere. Workers in almost every city can't afford to live in the cities they work for and work in, it's not just the ritzy vacation meccas anymore.
Sounds like many resort areas, workers can’t afford to live there.
It's just South Florida 2.0.
poor people working to Support the super Wealthy
I don't live in Arizona anymore and they'll never get a penny's worth of tourist money from me.
Work on a general strike/walk-out, organize and completely leave the rich people to figure it out amongst themselves
Absolutely 💯
That's a good plan but then they'll just import illegal migrants to do many of those jobs. Arizona probably has a million of them to choose from.
Guarantee they would, you see they did not become successful by being dependent on others and looking for non-skilled jobs and hand outs. So take your ball and go home, but it doesn't work.
3000 rent for a 2bedroom is wild
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
I’d rather see money fly around in the streets like trash than to live another day in this new hell
Just sad it came to this, every where you go. You see people suffering and the rich simply doesn't care. The greed is just too overwhelming... we need a safe affordable place for people to go... away from these greedy bastards
First thing that needs to happen is short term rentals should be banned. If you arent' living in the home you have no need for it. But that won't fix the whole problem. Simple reality is Sedona is far too rich for normal people to live in. If the normal people simply left the place the rich would pretty soon find themselves up a creek (and it won't be Oak Creek either) - without a paddle. New accommodation needs to be built. They have no problem developing multi million dollar areas for the super rich in their "gated communities" - and selling out their construction ordinances for the pocket books of the stinking rich (the abombination of a monstrosity opposite the Catholic church for example). So maybe they need to try and get a clue about the real world outside of stock options, buybacks, dividends etc, and realize somone has to take out the trash, cook the food, fix the streets and so on.
Ah, another Democrat wanting government to fix it, ban short term rentals. Go to Russia, sounds like their rules are closer to what you suggest.
The State could open land and build housing but that would hurt rich peoples monopoly over the land!
Shame on Sedona, shame, shame!
Capitalist wealth inequality is the greatest problem facing our nation today. Billionaire Oligarchs get richer, while regular Americans get poorer. This is unsustainable.
Reverse the Trump tax cuts
Need to start taxing these rich, out of touch people at 90% like we used to do.
Even teachers cannot afford to rent, is all around Arizona.
Same in Utah, park city. It's been ruined by those who step on the working class.
This is not the new norm everywhere, most people don't live somewhere with this kind of cost of living they shouldn't pretend or think they do, this is another level. This is the price paid for turning your small town into Disneyland. This is a cautionary tale about welcoming tourism and it's money, not the price of renting everywhere.
New American dream buy a full size livable van or car
Exactly.
Yup that’s where we’re at in this country.
That's still out of reach for most.
I just bought a 17yo SUV. Working on getting it up to spec now.
I now live in Costa Rica. I visited family in Tucson last month, and took a week long hiking trip in Sedona. The drive from Tucson to Sedona was very scenic! I did notice how everything from hotels,housing to food was expensive. I bought a beachfront home in Costa Rica that was 1/3 cheaper than most of the homes in Sedona.
Housing crisis. Governments need to step in and make affordable housing. That Dr. is discriminating against the poor.
Shame on him. I'd expect a lawyer to do something like that, not a doctor.
Ban Airbnb and vbros now
No one who works in Sedona lives in Sedona. They all live in Camp Verde and the surrounding areas. This has been the case for YEARS. This is nothing new
Getting a lot worse though.
Exactly. Sedona has always been a very expensive place to live.
Or in Cottonwood, Cornville, or Clarkdale.
Those are no longer an option anymore
This is correct. Sedona has been expensive for a long time.
In 2019, I was planning a move to Sedona from the East Coast. Beautiful 1400 sf two story condo near downtown was 300k. In 2021, that home rose to over 1mm.
Just leave! That place will be a lot less attractive once there are no gas stations, restaurants, schools or any other amenities due to a lack of workers to keep them open.
I’ve lived in Sedona for 11 years and I have noted over that time that I’ve been here that average Americans can no longer have a home here. I feel it’s a combination of the Sedona city prioritizing tourism over everything else, then add to that the 2016 Arizona legislature making it illegal for any city to regulate short term rentals in anyway, and you had a perfect storm for the doubling almost tripling of home prices in the last 10 years. I have also seen that every attempt at assisting those workers who service all these silver spooned people in Sedona is met with outrage from them and a mobilization to arms to so-called protect themselves from these people, the very people who service those so opposed to them. I personally find it disgusting and I do hope that eventually it gets to the stage where every business in Sedona cannot find anyone to work there.
If you lived in Sedona you should know all these people could drive 15 minutes to Cottonwood. There are plenty of houses / apartments for rent there.
Same here in NM. The desireable better areas to live in have been claimed by the wealthy. This came about during covid. I'm priced out of what used to be a nice reasonably priced home.
@@DouglasRamirez-dj7sd Get a heart you freak
@@sarahtiferet598 Let me guess ? You don't even live here in Sedona. Just another clueless person running their mouth.
sounds like they need some migrants moved in there....they'll get them right in perspective...
I was under the impression that people who lived and worked in sedona who weren't the uber rich mansion dwellers lived in nearby cottonwood and campe verde. Sedona is so crowded and space is so limited within city limits i dont know how anyone could live there without having to commute from outside of the city.
The little desert hamlet that Sedona was is no more.
Most Sedona workers have never been able to afford living in Sedona. Real story is how workers can't afford or find homes in the surrounding towns like Camp Verde, Cottonwood and Rimrock.
All those areas are just as expensive now. But thanks for playing.
@@MarkWongMD Sure bud. Sedona is still 2x-3x as much.
But you are correct and too my point, surrounding areas are still too expensive for most. Especially with todays interest rates.
Typical home values:
Camp Verde AZ $411299
Cottonwood AZ $390177
Rimrock AZ $343146
Sedona AZ $930,657
Come on Man, there are plenty of apartments in Cottonwood.
It's the same in Phoenix.
I used to see pictures in textbooks of income inequality in third world countries. You’d see a small group of mansions or an upscale neighborhood and then literally in their backyard behind a tall fence is miles of slums. Sometimes I think that’s where the US (and west) may be headed.
It's why education and informed voting is so important. Part of why the 50's and 60's were so prosperous was because our leaders made the middle class a very real priority. Unfortunately a lot of that was basically forced because of the war.
@@ct6852 HI, yes exactly! Real wages have NOT kept pace with inflation since Reagan . The big moneyed interests who brought us Ronald Reagan also turned our country into a Neo-liberal economic system. He de-regulated banking, destroyed unions, cut funding for Education, cut away the social safety nets , all the while giving GIANT TAX BREAKS to the Rich which Bush Jr and them Trump continued . From, another Teacher who cannot afford to rent in the community I serve . People say I should move , but then the salary is also lower and the rents aren't that much cheaper . VERY hard to NOT feel resentment and anger toward the wealthy and the people they vote for .We need to get rid of"Citizens United " just to start peace
@@ct6852 The war was only a part of the reason . The Great Depression was caused by the same forces that have turned our country from a much more regulated form of Capitalism into a " Trickle Down" system .( Give GIANT tax breaks to the rich and they'll " trickle it down " to the middle and lower classes . They KNEW that was a lie. But people voted for Reagan for single issue reasons . Guns, abortions ,and Gays . There's a reason Trump " LOVES the UN-educated "
This is the problem requiring 3X the rent
And they can’t increase the minimum wage because then the businesses claim they can’t pay that
They're lying.
It's happening nationwide, Sedona is not unique having this outrageous rent being forced on us. Something has to give soon, too many people are going under.
I live in California and work full time in hospital. We have same problem I can’t afford to even rent so I live with my parents. I make above minimum wage and single. This is not the America I grew up in.
I propose wage limits on crappy Dr's who don't do anything but prescribe pills and get rich
Gentrification prices out the very people that provide the services a city requires.
Yet, every county and city council across the country are ignorant of this lesson.
Well they are going to cook in their car / ovens like the dough boy come summer.
Yep, and freeze to death in the winter months.
What other choice do they have?
Will only get worse since this is baked into our Capitalist system.
@user-ut3rh3bz5d
Homeless have it better there.
That’s where the U.S is heading..
Government: best we can do is let you sleep in your car.
THAT IS REALLY WRONG! WHY DO THIS COUNTRY REFUSE TO PAY THEIR WORKERS A LIVING WAGE?
Why would anyone expect to find affordable housing in "one of the top vacation spots in the country?' ...do they not understand basic economics? If you want to live affordably, don't try to do it in the same place that all the One-Percenters are flocking. ...duh.
G R E E D
All HOA do is turn homeowners into renters
Capitalism is returning us back to Feudalism. Sad that most can't figure this out.
It is not capitalism, we need to go back on the gold standard
People are priced out. Sleeping in a car is choice. Imagine if every low income worker in Sedona drove the car to Nebraska to work. Every high priced city would take note. As the trash piles up, no grocery workers, and no septic pumping, you better believe some change would happen.
It’s everywhere, some places are just worst than others.
sedona is basically Sedona , California
Sad but true, that's what ruined it. Californicated
So true. When I first went up to the Verde Valley (Camp Verde, Cottonwood, Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon) in 1973 it was peaceful and only a small number of tourists, mostly from Phoenix. At the time there were maybe 3000 living in that entire area.
Funny thing I was just in Sedona and it was mostly people from the Midwest
There are 3 towns 15 - 25 minutes away that have plenty of apartments and houses for rent.
@@muffs55mercury61 I was going to say the same thing, back in the 70s we'd go to Sedona, and you could park your car anywhere and walk around enjoying the beautiful views, now you go there and there are no parking signs everywhere unless you pay an entrance fee. Sedona is a place I'll not visit again as a native-born Arizonan; I'll leave it to tourists who have the money to pay for a view of those magnificent red rocks.
There are several casinos in Nevada that have housing specific to their casino workers (you have to be working at the casino to live in them) and it seems to work-out well for both the casino and the workers.
The City of Sedona could do the same thing (housing for local employees) to solve the housing problem. If there is a fear of discrimination against lawsuits, then designate those that work in Secona businesses as a sort of 'auxiliary' town employee (sort of like 'volunteer fire department' personnel), then designate the housing area or 'safe parking area' for them as being for "City Employees' - only.
Maybe they should ban short term rental and leave that to the hotels.
If the wages "aren't enough" then the wages aren't "high" now are they?
Of course they’re trying to pass it so people can park and live in their vehicles so they don’t lose their workers to support their tourists. That’s really sad that the workers taking care of the tourist have to live in a car while the tourist come and live in a beautiful vacation rental that is unaffordable for the worker to live in full-time.
How is it possible the rent is 3x times the average wage?
Supply and demand.
Just leave the rich to bake in the hot sun because they should learn to be self-reliant
Why would anyone work full time and can't even pay rent while three people make millions off our hard work
This is happening in tourist areas all across the country.
Eight billion people on this one tiny planet .... it aint hard to figure out the source of the problem.
Greed.