Idaho Mayor proposes “Tent City” as a solution to unaffordable housing prices

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Ketchum considering tent city for workers amid 'crushing inequality,' scarce affordable housing

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/l...ents/277-6dcd3da9-7ce7-4722-81de-b1e379e0300a

KETCHUM, Idaho — In a town where some of the wealthiest people in the country keep lavish homes, glittering and vast against a backdrop of sweeping mountains,
officials are mulling over a plan to allow Ketchum's nurses, teachers, and service workers to sleep in tents in the city park as rent and housing costs continue to soar out of their grasp.

There's a bathroom in the park, after all,
Ketchum Mayor Neil Bradshaw noted. They could walk over to the YMCA to take a shower before work.

The pitch came last week as one of several suggestions during a contentious special city council meeting on how to tackle the increasingly dire affordable housing situation in Ketchum.
The central Idaho town in the heart of Blaine County has long been a vacation destination for the ultra-rich, but boasts median home listing prices of $905,000, according to Realtor.com, while rent on single apartments routinely runs thousands of dollars a month.

Bradshaw and members of the city council fielded comments from locals for whom frustrations about the increasing gulf of inequality in Blaine County are reaching a boiling point.

Ketchum resident Reid Stillman's current rental home is being sold by the landlord, giving him just a few months to get out. He said he makes "good money" at his advertising job but has been unable to find another place to live.

"You need to step in," Stillman told the mayor.
"Because not only am I going to be homeless with a good job Sept. 1, but my friends who are in the service industry, who don't make a lot of money - they can't pay $2,900 a month for a two-bedroom in Ketchum. This isn't San Francisco, Neil."

 

[GothTalk]

Ok....so???

They need to build some housing.

Or some people need to leave

 

[HisArpy]

Ok....so???

They need to build some housing.

Or some people need to leave

My philosophy - if you can't afford to live someplace, you should go find somewhere else where that's possible. Rent control, subsidies, etc are all gimmicks designed to let the destitute live in a palace they can neither afford nor deserve.

 

[WillJ8787]

Build it on the Riparian right of way on a lake front up in Minnesota.

 

[GothTalk]

My philosophy - if you can't afford to live someplace, you should go find somewhere else where that's possible.

Oh totally........socially, economically and politically.

No one is entitled to more than they can afford. If one of those things isn't working for you? Time to find somewhere more suitable.

Rent control, subsidies, etc are all gimmicks designed to let the destitute live in a palace they can neither afford nor deserve.

All the things that try to either ignore or fight realities that offend fee fees just don't work out well.

 

[WillJ8787]

And we know exactly where that is and where land is ultra cheap....up in Minnesota along the lake front.

A place where those who have nothing can go and be freeeeeeeee!!!!

 

[GothTalk]

And we know exactly where that is and where land is ultra cheap....up in Minnesota along the lake front.

A place where those who have nothing can go and be freeeeeeeee!!!!

It's average....Ohio and West Virginia are cheap.... so is PA by the looks of it LOL.

That's right Will, I am free, my shit's all paid for and I can make my own money. I don't have to run on the mans hamster wheel like you and the other wage slaves.

And it bugs the fucking shit out of you and other leftist control freaks, it drive you all INSANE with envy and rage and I love it.

 

[mayfly13]

It's average....Ohio and West Virginia are cheap.... so is PA by the looks of it LOL.

That's right Will, I am free, my shit's all paid for and I can make my own money. I don't have to run on the mans hamster wheel like you and the other wage slaves.

And it bugs the fucking shit out of you and other leftist control freaks, it drive you all INSANE with envy and rage and I love it.

so what are they?
hamsters on a wheel, or control freaks?

 

[mayfly13]

Oh totally........socially, economically and politically.

No one is entitled to more than they can afford. If one of those things isn't working for you? Time to find somewhere more suitable.

All the things that try to either ignore or fight realities that offend fee fees just don't work out well.

currently, with the mortgage and rental costs versus blue collar wages,
that would mean moving out of America.

 

[WillJ8787]

so what are they?
hamsters on a wheel, or control freaks?

Lol...he can't seem to decide.

Hamster on a well seem like a projection to me...lol.

 

[WillJ8787]

currently, with the mortgage and rental costs versus blue collar wages,
that would mean moving out of America.

This is right....it now requires multiple individuals living under the same roof to afford.

The numbers just don't add up for millions of folks and that is a significant problem for all of us(USA... regardless of the State one lives in)

 

[GothTalk]

so what are they?
hamsters on a wheel, or control freaks?

Lol...he can't seem to decide.

Hamster on a well seem like a projection to me...lol.

Those things are not mutually exclusive.

 

[GothTalk]

currently, with the mortgage and rental costs versus blue collar wages,
that would mean moving out of America.

Not at all.

It means moving out of certain spots in America.

Not everywhere is Malibu.

This is right....it now requires multiple individuals living under the same roof to afford.

No, it's not, and no, it doesn't.

The numbers just don't add up for millions of folks and that is a significant problem for all of us(USA... regardless of the State one lives in)

And that's a bullshit lie!!

You just want to make it a problem for everyone in the USA, no doubt by force of federal government authority too don't ya??? Psychotic control freak.

 

[WillJ8787]

Quarantined shit poster say what? .... nothing as usual.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Conservatives should be worried about the fact that capitalism is not working for a growing percentage of working Americans, many of whom have college degrees. Immediately after the Second World War and for some time afterwards the average house cost twice the average year's salary. I have read that every year the number of apartments renting for less than $800 a month is declining.

During the 1990's Pat Buchanan said, "Conservatives should be asked what they are trying to conserve."

 

[mayfly13]

Conservatives should be worried about the fact that capitalism is not working for a growing percentage of working Americans, many of whom have college degrees. Immediately after the Second World War and for some time afterwards the average house cost twice the average year's salary. I have read that every year the number of apartments renting for less than $800 a month is declining.

During the 1990's Pat Buchanan said, "Conservatives should be asked what they are trying to conserve."

Great quote.
It would make for a thread title too.

 

[GothTalk]

Quarantined shit poster say what? .... nothing as usual.

So you just got hammered and have no response to anything said.

Have a nice day.

 

[Dribble]

Well....the city could charge a nightly plot fee of $50.

 

[WillJ8787]

Conservatives should be worried about the fact that capitalism is not working for a growing percentage of working Americans, many of whom have college degrees. Immediately after the Second World War and for some time afterwards the average house cost twice the average year's salary. I have read that every year the number of apartments renting for less than $800 a month is declining.

During the 1990's Pat Buchanan said, "Conservatives should be asked what they are trying to conserve."

Yep, average cost of a efficiency apartment (one all purpose room with a bathroom) in Philadelphia is at or above $1,200/month. Philadelphia is one of the poorest cities at 20 to 25% of the population living in poverty.

 

[pecksniff]

Doesn't Idaho get awfully cold in winter?

 

[GothTalk]

Conservatives should be worried about the fact that capitalism is not working for a growing percentage of working Americans, many of whom have college degrees. Immediately after the Second World War and for some time afterwards the average house cost twice the average year's salary. I have read that every year the number of apartments renting for less than $800 a month is declining.

During the 1990's Pat Buchanan said, "Conservatives should be asked what they are trying to conserve."

If only we had capitalism......

 

[WillJ8787]

Doesn't Idaho get awfully cold in winter?

Maybe that is the goal.... nobody in their right mind would live in a tent there.

 

[pecksniff]

If only we had capitalism......

If we don't, who does?

 

[GothTalk]

If we don't, who does?

Sweden....Norway.... Denmark

 

[pecksniff]

Sweden....Norway.... Denmark

Then let's be like them!