Christine Walker remembers Jackson Hole in the ‘90s. It was hard to find full-time, year-round work. Housing was a huge stretch. Especially for those earning their income locally.
Today, Jackson Hole’s economy is more advanced. Year-round jobs are plentiful. But, Walker tells co-host Pete Muldoon, finding a free-market home for local earners has gone from hard to “downright impossible.”
Having experience with affordable housing policy in towns from Aspen, Colorado, to Bozeman, Montana, the strategist thinks it's time Jackson Hole takes a holistic look at its housing goals for the decades to come. That means drilling down on housing demand from the source: commercial development.
