DENVER — Park County Commissioner Dick Elsner doesn’t mince words when talking about the impact of short term rentals on his county’s housing market.
“They’ve pretty much destroyed it,” he said. “In the entire county we’ve got I think the last number was 49 houses on the market. There is nothing in Park County that is really affordable.”
“The sheriff’s department, when we hire deputies, they can’t find a place to live,” Elsner said. “They hired a doctor, he couldn’t find a house so they had to hire a different doctor.”
The tight market made news from the Colorado State Capitol last month even more welcoming for county leaders like Elsner. In March, Colorado lawmakers passed a measure that changed the law on how lodging tax revenue can be spent by county government.
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