Tourists flocking to Moab have plenty of options when it comes to places to stay, but the workers who keep the town running say they can’t afford to live there and there aren’t enough places to rent. ksltv.com/492041/moab-housing...
i have 2 behind me and they won't even cut down a dead giant maple headed towards my house if it falls, twp don't nothing to help with that, but some real stange people rent and i think some dump unwanted pets when they rent it cause i saw a couple of cats at it after they left, wonder how cities and twps don't consider this a business and shut them down
Good idea. BTW this problem is happening in resort towns all over the West. Remote workers are the ones buying up all the homes. They earn an average of 100 grand per year, so they can afford to buy up multiple homes. Then, they rent some of what they buy on Airbnb. They have influencers and support networks online where they teach each other hoe to exploit the housing market and spend their high salaries in cheaper towns. They call the latter, "geo arbitrage."
@@Nicola-ew4xn how disgusting! Local municipality should be passing legislation to help curb those kinds of tactics to allow those who truly NEED the homes the opportunity to buy them!
My son is headed out to Moab to work for a new resort there, and he will be provided lodging but he still will pay a fee, but because he will work within the resort, the fee is small. This truly explains some of the tent /Rv cities. I would do the same before paying that kind of money to live. They do realize UTAH is not CALIFORNIA
This is ridiculous…please continue to approach the City Council. This is absolutely a CRISIS. Many people struggle…I live with three family members and yes the cost of housing monthly is absolutely significant but who can really afford it and we live outside of the city. I’m praying for all these families who need housing assistance immediately. 🙆🏻♀️🙏🏽
I’ve been to Moab Utah many many years ago back in the early 90s and it didn’t even have apartment developments. It had the Apache Motel and a trailer park and a brewery small Police Dept. just a small place and a another small bar. It was so small when I was there there was a drunk driver, driving so slow when the police got my behind him it put it on sirens to pull the person over and the person in front. The cop the and the police officer went around him turned off its lights and just kept going. Really back then it was a really really place to live but to see this now is criminal, and there’s some greed there. Someone’s making money. So with a lot of people going there for off Roading etc.. politicians are taking advantage of it to make money for their pockets.
The solution to this problem is way too easy: 1. City-owned land 2. Tiny houses or mobile homes 3. Available only for people working in the city doing actual tangible work essential to the ongoing function and operation of the city (i.e. sorry nomads, not for you) Because the goal is not profit, the rent paid for this housing could be equivalent to whatever it costs to maintain the properties. In other words, the tenants pay for the maintenance of the properties.
So sorry this is happening. In the 70s and 80s this was a nice town. Tourists were welcome but housing was still affordable. Then bicyclists and others “discovered” it. Seems like affordable housing couldn’t keep up with the growth. Hope they discover some other hidden gem in another state!
They have found hidden gems in pretty much all of the states... and have turned all of them into overpriced dumps. Pray remote work ends, because then most of the will have to go back from where they came from. Moab is a "zoomtown" and will suffer the fate of all zoomtowns- the locals get forced out or made homeless, then the workforce dries up and the town falls apart.
@@realstatistician If there is a lack of available land, then they may consider taxing short-term rentals to fund quicker development of higher density, or to provide direct rent assistance. I don’t think they should ban short-term rentals, but tat’s a decision for the people of Moab to consider, too. There are a ton of Moab citizens who benefit from short-term rentals. Making it easier to build hotels which can help put competitive pressure on short-term rentals. encouraging, maybe even requiring hotels to provide lodging for their workers in some form-maybe they already do the latter just to be able to attract workers?
They do this on purpose. If they make houses too available, peoples properties could lose value. The US government has to keep the debt fueled house of cards from collapsing by keeping housing scarce. People are so overextended that a drop in home values basically instantly caused a recession and a 2008 situation
If they are like landlords in other parts of the county, they need to make up for savings that were depleted because renters did not have to pay for almost 2 years. To avoid losing the rental house - Landlords used their personal savings to pay the mortgage. Hopefully this tight rental situation will change if the government will promise not to allow renters to avoid paying rent in the future. The government really messed this one up. Luckily our renters paid through the whole pandemic or we would have had to do the same thing
Real estate investors might lose money if housing was too available. The governments main goal is to keep housing scarce so prices go up forever. That's the American scam
It's not a housings crisis. It's a greed crisis with rent way to high. We get paid like we still in the 90s but rent is 4x what we paid in the 90s. Tf cap rent to 20% of peoples wages and you wont have a homeless problem.
Maybe I'm hearing this video info wrong, but it seems as if you feel like you are being pushed out of town, then you probably are. "The world is a vampire....".
Too true. Honestly, when they said $1800 for a 2bd I was curious what they were complaining about. That's about what it costs what I live in a CO mountain town. Just the cost of living somewhere desirable
let those who pushed out the poor who were serving the rich, let the rich now come work the restaurants and hotels changing the bed sheets for there fellow rich friends !
