{"id":4035,"date":"2015-06-13T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2015-06-13T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:11:35","slug":"what-i-dont-get-about-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/13\/what-i-dont-get-about-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Don’t Get About Affordable Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading Bubba Brown’s article in today’s Park Record <\/a>about Economic Growth in Summit County. It brought up the need for\u00a0affordable housing for local workers. Yet this article seemed different because it is in the context of Summit County and not Park City.<\/p>\n

For so long I have heard people lament that their children can’t afford to live in Park City. That people working at a local\u00a0grocery store can’t afford to live in Park City. That ski workers can’t afford to live in Park City. That is all probably true.<\/p>\n

Yet what about Summit County as a place for affordable housing — and I’m not talking Old Ranch Road? Kamas is 22 minutes away from Park City. Oakley is 25 minutes away from\u00a0Park City. Check out what you can get in Kamas <\/a>for under $250,00. That still may not be cheap enough, but it is at least half (probably 1\/3) of what it costs to buy a house here in the Basin.<\/p>\n

So what I don’t understand is why talk of affordable housing has to be so uber-local. My first, second, and third jobs out of college were at least 25 minutes from my home. \u00a0I was willing to drive. Would I have loved to live downtown in the city\u00a0where the action was? Sure, but I was making $34,000 a year and condos cost $400,000. That’s life.<\/p>\n

If you look far enough into the future, and if you believe growth is really coming, then you’d be a fool not to buy in Kamas.\u00a0If Park City will be what they project, why wouldn’t you want your kid to buy in Kamas at $220,000. That would be the definition of investment.<\/p>\n

Folks\u00a0in Kamas or Oakley, of course, may say that they don’t want these type of residents. That’s a larger issue though. That said, it seems like it makes a lot of sense for us to think outside of Park City and the Basin for affordable housing. It’s just a more straightforward path. These properties are already somewhat affordable.<\/p>\n

We don’t have to figure out ways to fit the square peg\u00a0in the round hole.<\/p>\n

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