“I work 70 hours a week,” said one worker who commutes to Springdale from Hurricane. “I’m basically living to work instead of working to live. I’m working just to pay my rent.”
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune The sun sets on peaks overlooking Springdale, Thursday, October 10, 2013, as the state and federal governments were working out the details of a deal to reopen Zion and the other national parks in Utah as the government shutdown continues. A National Park Service report shows UtahÕs efforts to open nine units during the federal government shutdown paid off with visitors spending $10 for every $1 the state spent for the opening.
“You could come here with a whole bunch of money in your pocket and you would still have a hard time finding a place,” said Springdale Mayor Barbara Bruno. “So it’s really a problem. Our businesses are understaffed, and Zion National Park is very understaffed. They have offered employees jobs, or they have had prospective employees who accepted a position and then had to decline later because they couldn’t find anywhere to live.
“One of my employees who has lived here for more than two decades is having to move because the owner just sold the property he lives in. And he rented it for 21 years straight,” Holt said. “Airbnbs have just destroyed our climate up here because you can make more money renting your house for three or four days than you can renting it to somebody for a month.”
That’s where Dutson’s expertise comes into play. A longtime expert in affordable housing project management, he is familiar with developers that specialize in building low- to moderate-income developments. He said developing a large-scale project will likely be difficult because of the dearth of available land and the stigma some residents attach to low-income housing.
“Anecdotally,” the mayor said, “you could say of course people want to live and work here. But we only have an elementary school here. We don’t have a middle school or high school in Springdale. So some people would probably opt to live in Hurricane Valley where the schools are and commute to Springdale for work.”
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