{"id":118151,"date":"2023-08-20T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lasixlineon.com\/?p=118151"},"modified":"2023-08-20T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T19:31:24","slug":"can-affluence-and-affordable-housing-coexist-in-colorados-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasixlineon.com\/world-news\/can-affluence-and-affordable-housing-coexist-in-colorados-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Can affluence and affordable housing coexist in Colorados Rockies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Talmon Joseph Smith<\/strong>, The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

In the recreation-fueled, amenity-rich economy of Colorado\u2019s Rocky Mountain region, there are two peak seasons: summer, with its rafting, hiking, fishing and biking, and the cold months filled with skiing and other winter activities.<\/p>\n

And then there is \u201cmud season\u201d — a liminal moment in spring when the alpine environment, slowly then suddenly, begins to thaw and only a trickle of tourists linger.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a period that workers in other places might bemoan. But for much of the financially stretched workforce serving the assemblage of idyllic mountain towns across the state, a brief drop-off in business this spring was a respite.<\/p>\n

During a slow shift on a 51-degree day at the Blue Stag Saloon — a nook on Main Street in the vacation hub of Breckenridge \u2014 Michelle Badger, a veteran server, half-joked with her co-workers that \u201cthis winter was hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crowds were larger than ever. And workers in the old Gold Rush town still enjoy the highs of the easy camaraderie and solid tips that come with service jobs in the area. But it was all sobered by the related headaches of soaring rents and acute understaffing, which left employees, managers and demanding customers feeling strained.<\/p>\n

Working in mountain towns like Breckenridge, Silverthorne, Dillon and Frisco in Summit County would feel like a fairer bargain, Badger and her colleagues said, if they could better afford living close by.<\/p>\n

Long commutes are common throughout America. But rent in hamlets among the wilderness on the outskirts of town are becoming burdensome too.<\/p>\n

Job growth has severely outpaced the stock of shelter throughout Colorado. Median rent in Frisco — which a decade ago was considered a modest \u201cbedroom community\u201d for commuting employees \u2014 is about $4,000 a month, according to Zillow, and 90% above the national median. Homebuyers buttressed by family money abound.<\/p>\n

The wage floor for most jobs in and around the county — from line cook to ski lift operator \u2014 is at least $18 an hour, or roughly $37,000 a year. Yet for those not lucky enough to land a rare slot in subsidized local employee housing, it\u2019s not uncommon to live an hour or more away to attain a livable budget.<\/p>\n

As that happens, the contingent displaced by the rich ripples outward down rural highway corridors and, in turn, displaces the farther-flung working poor.<\/p>\n

Inequality has always been rampant within the orbit of popular destinations. But the financial knock-on effects of those ritzy spheres have expanded as the pandemic-induced surge in remote work has supercharged divides.<\/p>\n

Wanderlust-filled white-collar workers abruptly discovered that multiweek visits or even permanent relocations were possible for them and their families. Those seeking investment properties saw the opportunities of this hybrid-driven land rush as well, and pounced.<\/p>\n

Longtime residents have had a front-row seat.<\/p>\n

Matt Scheer — a 48-year-old musician who grew up on a ranch eastward in El Paso County, where \u201cas soon as we could carry the milk bucket we were milking the cow\u201d \u2014 is the sort of extroverted jack-of-all-trades who typifies the spirit (and the wistful brand) of Summit County.<\/p>\n

Having moved near Breckenridge in the early 2000s to ski, hike, fly fish and work around town, he\u2019s relieved that he managed to pick up his place in 2012 for $240,000 with a fixed-rate mortgage. Prices in his tucked-away French Creek neighborhood — a hilly, unincorporated patch with modest double-wide manufactured homes \u2014 have more than tripled.<\/p>\n

Though he\u2019s a loyal resident with little interest in ever moving, Scheer said he \u201ccan\u2019t really leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a payout of tens of thousands of dollars from the local government, he recently signed onto a hefty \u201cdeed restriction\u201d for his property, banning its use for Airbnb stays, limiting any potential renter or buyer to the workforce of Summit, and limiting any potential resale price. And he did it with pride.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of a growing program led by Breckenridge and other local governments to limit gentrification without licensing a large buildup of new developments. (Deed restrictions in destination areas got off to a quieter start in the 2010s but have ticked up.)<\/p>\n

Incumbent property owners willing to sacrifice lucrative short-term vacation rental income see it as a fair trade-off, key to keeping long-term residents and the dashing contours of their towns\u2019 terrain. Policy critics, and frustrated local renters fighting over limited spots, say it is an inadequate tool for the scale and source of the problem: a lack of units.<\/p>\n

Those critics include the governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, who is skeptical that lump-sum payments to owners in exchange for deed restrictions will be a sufficient incentive to broadly move the needle on affordability.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no silver bullet,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cBut one of the areas that we have focused on is removing the barriers to additional home construction.\u201d He added that \u201chousing is not a problem that you can solve by throwing more money at the existing housing stock.\u201d<\/p>\n

His sweeping legislation to ensure \u201ca home for every Colorado budget\u201d by preempting local land-use laws and directly loosening zoning rules statewide died in the state Senate in May, after some initial momentum. All but one of the mayors in the state\u2019s Metro Mayors Caucus issued a letter opposing the plan.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s Either Five Mil or Five Jobs”<\/h4>\n

As politicians jockey, many resourceful Coloradans find ways to make do.<\/p>\n

Scheer, for instance, has picked up over 30 music gigs through the end of summer, paying about $100 an hour — though he acknowledges it\u2019s his locked-in, lower housing costs that make his lifestyle workable.<\/p>\n

During a practice jam session and impromptu afternoon party of 20- to 40-somethings at Scheer\u2019s place in the spring, his pal and fellow guitarist, Bud Hallock (the other half of their occasional duo band, Know Good People), explained the grind people face by echoing the playfully hard-nosed aphorism uttered around town: \u201cIt\u2019s either five mil or five jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re willing to put in the work, you\u2019ll be able to,\u201d argues Hallock, who moved out West shortly after graduating from St. Lawrence University in 2015. Hallock has three jobs, he said, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s the God-given right of anyone to come to a ski town and have it easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many longtime residents and transplants alike, it has become harder to finesse: Even as Summit County adds waves of remote workers, it has experienced net negative migration since 2020. It\u2019s a trend mirrored in the larger urban areas of Denver and Boulder, where the share of people working remotely is among the highest in the country, as homelessness rises.<\/p>\n

Tamara Pogue, a member of Summit County\u2019s governing board, said the mountain towns and valley cities of the Front Range near Fort Collins and Colorado Springs as well as those out by the Western Slope struggled with an \u201caffordability issue\u201d similar to the nation\u2019s big cities for the same reason: \u201cWe\u2019re supply-constrained.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is the average cost of a single-family home in Summit County so far this year is $2.14 million,\u201d Pogue said. \u201cNot one job makes that affordable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The stock available is limited: 70% of homes in the county are second homes that sit vacant most of the year or serve as short-term rentals, she said, typically Airbnbs.<\/p>\n

As a single mother of three, Pogue bought a 1,400-square-foot duplex for $525,000 in 2018 — a rarity, if not an impossibility, now. She said a determination to prevent \u201cmountain communities\u201d from becoming \u201ctowns without townspeople\u201d had driven her to become a staunch YIMBY, or a \u201cyes in my backyard\u201d supporter of homebuilding efforts, against the wishes of perceived NIMBYs, or the \u201cnot in my backyard\u201d voices.<\/p>\n

Pogue and her allies argue that the relatively slow pace of building in the Rockies, despite the area\u2019s popularity and rising prices, is a subtle form of denial.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone wants to be here, whether they work here or not,\u201d she added, \u201cand so we have this spiral.\u201d<\/p>\n

If, When, Where and How to Build More<\/h4>\n

A few affordable-housing projects visibly chug along in Summit near the airport service road, not far from Kingdom Park Court, one of a handful of mobile home parks in the county with pricey lot rents. But getting middle-income developments greenlit can be a slog. Many proponents of limiting development note that about 80% of the county is restricted federal public land, putting a ceiling on what can be done. (There\u2019s a nascent pilot program with the U.S. Forest Service to approve some apartments on leased land.) In the meantime, the well-off are gobbling up much of what\u2019s left.<\/p>\n

Just north of downtown Silverthorne sits Summit Sky Ranch — a sprawling development with homes starting around $1 million, with a pledge of \u201cbringing modern mountain living to over 400 acres of pristine natural beauty\u201d in the valley. It quickly sold out and many have moved in, lured by a private observatory and private access to a river bend.<\/p>\n

Laurie Best, the longtime planning manager for housing in the community development department for the Town of Breckenridge, said she had emphasized deed-restriction policies and more generally trying to preserve existing units to reduce the need for new ones.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Best and her backers have acceded to some construction at a slow and steady pace, but they staunchly oppose taller, dense multifamily buildings, which are not, as she put it, \u201cconsistent with the character of the town.\u201d<\/p>\n

In several counties, there has been a swell in \u201cconservation easements\u201d — legal agreements between private landowners and local governments to guard wildlife and scenic open space by permanently banning development. The trend led the state to create a Division of Conservation in 2018 with an oversight commission to authenticate the contracts.<\/p>\n

Eric Budd, a leader of a movement in Colorado called Bedrooms Are for People — which favors expanding land use and more widely permitting apartments, duplexes and triplexes \u2014 scoffs at the uptick in easements. He contends that what he tartly calls a \u201cxenophobic attitude of \u2018there\u2019s only so much to go around\u2019\u201d is self-defeating.<\/p>\n

Trying to restrict access to a hot commodity — in this case, half of a state \u2014 won\u2019t end well for anyone, he said, and a California-level, cost-of-living crisis is only five or 10 years away.<\/p>\n

Down in the foothills of the Rockies in Boulder, where Budd lives, school enrollment and the overall population have declined along with affordability, as remote-worker migration has picked up.<\/p>\n

In some sense, the arguments against restrictionism amount to a water-balloon analogy: squeezing leads to odd bulges in random places.<\/p>\n

Before the pandemic, Leadville, an old mining town 15 minutes from the trailhead of the highest peak in the Rockies, was an affordable harbor for working-class Hispanic employees of the nearby vacation economies: just out of reach of the affluence around Aspen to the west and resorts near Vail to the north.<\/p>\n

Since 2020, though, Leadville has become engulfed as those realms of wealth expand and overlap, causing rents and home prices to spike beyond what many can feasibly afford over time, with few other places to go.<\/p>\n

Second-home owners constituted half of all home sales in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n

Good Intentions Gone Wrong<\/h4>\n

Half of Colorado renters are officially defined as cost-burdened — spending more than 30% of their income on housing costs. And local economists suggest that the rate has ticked even higher in mountain locales.<\/p>\n

For Kimberly Kreissig, a real estate agent in Steamboat Springs, a year-round recreation hub with natural hot springs near Wyoming, the affordability crisis in \u201cthe high country\u201d has no simple villain. For years, her practice in Steamboat — where the average home price is above $1 million, compared with $580,000 in early 2019 \u2014 included both upper-middle-class, first-time homebuyers and luxury-market sellers.<\/p>\n

In 2018, she and her husband, a developer, broke ground on a dense, 50-unit multifamily project in Steamboat designed for people \u201cin that $75,000 range,\u201d she said — \u201cfor instance, my office manager here.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had grandiose plans that we were going to be able to sell these things for $300,000,\u201d Kreissig said, but they were foiled by several factors.<\/p>\n

Even before COVID-19 struck, \u201cthe demand was just so through the roof that people were offering us more than list price right out of the chutes,\u201d she said, with precontract bids coming in \u201ctwice as high as we anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, once lockdowns ended, the remote-working cohort swooped in — just as labor and material costs shot up for the contractors still finishing some units. Before long, many families she sold units to in 2019 for around $400,000 realized that because of the housing boom they had \u201cover $300,000 in equity\u201d in their homes \u2014 and with interest rates so low, they could parlay a different (or additional) purchase. Many apartment owners began independently flipping their units to investors and buyers of second homes who were willing to pay well above the list prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne flip near the end for one of the units was for $800,000,\u201d Kreissig said. \u201cWe tried to be the good guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

One way to respond to house flippers is through greater deed restriction, which Steamboat has enforced in a few neighborhoods, along with some short-term rental restrictions, not unlike other hot spots. The area has also benefited from the state\u2019s Middle Income Housing Authority pilot program, which has put up a few buildings in town. But Steamboat still has a shortage of 1,400 units, according to a report from local authorities.<\/p>\n

A big break came when an anonymous donor recently purchased a 534-acre farm property, Brown Ranch, and turned it over to the Yampa Valley Housing Authority, with instructions that it be used for long-term affordable housing for local workers.<\/p>\n

It came as welcome news to the area\u2019s middle class. And yet the sheer surprise, and luck, of the donation is indicative of broader, underlying tensions that typically drive community-level and state debates: Is more supply a threat to both cultural vibes and property price appreciation, or a win-win opportunity to flourish?<\/p>\n

Kreissig thinks it all comes back to \u201cthe kind of \u2018not in my backyard\u2019 mentality\u201d that a silent majority holds.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the people that are already \u2018in,\u2019 there\u2019s a fair share of folks that are saying, \u2018You know, \u2018I\u2019m in, we don\u2019t we don\u2019t need any more growth,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cBut you can\u2019t stop growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forced to Move Downhill<\/h4>\n

In March 2020, Nancy Leatham, 34, was making just above the minimum wage, living with her husband and their baby daughter in Idaho Springs — a little city above 7,000 feet wedged between a steep crag and an I-70 exit, far downhill from chic resort land.<\/p>\n

They struggled to get by \u201cright during the height of the pandemic, when everything was shut down,\u201d wiping out their income, she said. It felt like a repeat of her teenage years during the mortgage-induced financial crisis when her family\u2019s business as excavation contractors — preparing sites for home construction \u2014 went belly-up, and their house was foreclosed upon.<\/p>\n

In spring 2020, \u201cI had to start going to food banks and stuff to get food,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we had to sell a car, and just stuff like that to, like, to make ends meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

By 2021, her husband, Austin, had found a job at Walmart making $19 an hour, while she was promoted at Starbucks, becoming a manager at $18 an hour, plus bonus — and \u201cwe had our child tax credit,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started looking for a house because we had really great income,\u201d roughly $80,000 before taxes, she said. \u201cI grew up in poverty, since 2008 especially, and we\u2019d been living with food insecurity and stuff, so I was like \u2018Look at us, we made it!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

But almost as soon as she started house hunting, she realized that, within months, the booming housing market had far outpaced the good labor market. They had been priced out of their sleepy, snowy town, after merely a few bidding wars. The average home price — $340,000 at the start of 2019 \u2014 is up 66%. Higher mortgage rates hurt, too.<\/p>\n

Many of the Starbucks employees Leatham managed owned their homes rather than rented, she said, and \u201chalf left because they were able to sell their house off for considerably more than they were when they bought.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Hoping to buy or rent something bigger than what she called a \u201ccloset\u201d apartment, Leatham, who now has a second child, is preparing for the cold reality of \u201chaving to move downhill\u201d — though where exactly is unclear: 15 miles down the corridor, renters and buyers run into coveted areas near Golden and Denver.<\/p>\n

Recently, a woman visited the Starbucks Leatham works at, she said, and was dressed very much like an out-of-towner. They chit-chatted at the register, and the woman mentioned she was in town to check on a recent property purchase.<\/p>\n

Getting her hopes up for a nicer place, Leatham pried a bit:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018Oh, nice, what are you going to do with it?\u2019 And she\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s for rental.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, cool.\u2019 And then she goes, \u2018Short-term rental.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then, I went \u2018Dang it!\u2019 But really loud, and I made her feel awful — I didn\u2019t mean to make her feel that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grand Sights, Harsh Reality<\/h4>\n

Back up the I-70 corridor in Frisco, a sprawling Walmart parking lot often occupied by unhoused people living out of their cars and campers is tucked in front of a commercial complex with a high-end furniture store, a Whole Foods and a craft microbrewery.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the few places for the growing homeless population to go, since overnight parking is widely banned in Summit County, even in sparse hamlets like Blue River, perched just beyond Breckenridge above 10,000 feet.<\/p>\n

The effects of the global and national wealth parked in the Rockies often cascade downstream like the snow melt that carves the rivers. But it\u2019s a force that can be identified in any direction.<\/p>\n

For many, if not most, homeowners in high-country counties like Summit, the hard truth is that only so much can be done if the very idea of mountain living — experiencing nature, removed from the bustling downhill hassles of the outside world \u2014 is to be maintained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny, on our little block, there\u2019s probably, you know, 10 homes — and on a beautiful day, which we have a lot of, you\u2019ll see all of us standing out in our driveway, taking pictures,\u201d said Best of Breckenridge\u2019s community development department. \u201cI must have the same picture 100 times because it\u2019s so stunning when you go out there, and you\u2019re still in awe of where we live. So I totally get the folks that want to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

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