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Monday, November 22, 2021

Employee Housing at Bear Lake

 

An article written in the Utah Business Magazine featured a story called “Where should Park City Employees live?” written by Jennifer Alsever. The topic should be read by all of us who live around and love Bear Lake. Some of the questions we should address are: how much should our workers here be paid to live at the lake? There are not affordable rentals in Garden City for enough employees. You can buy a townhouse for $269,000, but you have to qualify. Who will certify that a person making $16.00 an hour is a candidate to purchase a house? Is there someone who is altruistic who could buy a town home and then sell to a person making $16-$20 and hour? We could tax the developers, we could put a stipend on an empty house, or we could ask developers to help finance affordable houses. Who will help? This is our community can we step up?

You can download Jennifer’s complete article at https://www.utahbusiness.com/park-city-real-estate-prices-are-causing-problems/

(She has also written books and I am ready to read them.)

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