Glenn K. Beaton: Let’s reinvent taxpayer-subsidized housing | AspenTimes.com

Glenn K. Beaton: Let’s reinvent taxpayer-subsidized housing | AspenTimes.com
"Aspen real estate is expensive.
It got so bad some years ago that many workers had to commute about 25 minutes over a scenic highway from a cool little mountain town downvalley where housing is cheaper.
Comfortable buses with free wifi are available at heated bus stops every 15 minutes, but commuters always seem to like their cars better.
Many of those commuters were employees of local, big business such as Aspen Skiing Co. which found that their employees wouldn't work as cheaply as they'd like them to if they had to suffer that 25-minute commute.
...This being the People's Republic of Aspen, and the persons complaining being the persons who run the show, the first, second and third solutions were all … make the taxpayers pay. And so they did.
Now a person making as much as $181,000 a year can get taxpayer-subsidized housing for dimes on the dollar.
...The residents are chosen in lotteries, legitimacy of which some people question at times.
Read on.