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What ski towns tell us about the inequality crisis

February 26, 2022/

Park City, Utah Ski town rural

Ski town economics are a harbinger for America’s struggling middle class

The typical price of a home in Park City tops $1.8 million these days. Local workers “are not moving down the street or down the block to another condo. They are moving out of town or back … with their parents,” Becca Gerber, a Park City Council member, said in November.

By Heather Hansman


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