Down and Out in Telluride

In America's tourist boomtowns, low wages and high rents are leaving the working class out in the cold

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There are tiresome local arguments about which way to approach the problem. One of them is how to sort out the workers who can't afford shelter from the freeloaders who live dirty and like it. Then there is the libertarian case: Jesus was a hippie, man. But for the most part community leaders would like to get everyone back indoors, particularly when it's nasty outside. Of course the ( sorehead view is widespread too. As Jackson Hole builder Jacques Sarthou sees it, "You don't go into Beverly Hills and demand cheap housing just because you want to live there. If you cannot afford it, tough luck." But Beverly Hills is spang in the middle of one of America's largest urban bowls, Mr. Sarthou. It doesn't have to share with the majestic Grand Tetons, which don't leave a town much room.

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