This 50-unit, $11 million affordable housing project is under construction in Durango where the workforce has been squeezed out of the rental and homebuying markets. Many more projects like this are needed Westwide to solve the current housing crisis. (Jonathan Thompson, High Country News)
Re: “When living where you work is out of reach,” May 24 Perspective article.
Affordable housing isn’t an abstract problem simply because retailers and service providers can’t pay enough to keep qualified employees living in their market areas. The lack of affordable housing eventually results in a wage and price spiral that further pushes blue-collar workers out of their respective communities.
Quite clearly, large municipalities like Denver are wrestling with the affordable housing problem, as are small municipalities like my hometown of Buena Vista. In most cases, affordable housing has long since vanished from our “bedroom communities.” The big question is: Where will it end?
Gary E. Goms, Buena Vista
This letter was published in the May 29 edition.
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