The Colorado Sun: The true cause of Colorado’s resort housing crunch can be found in the mirror

The solution is not complicated: More multi-family density, less NIMBYism

Ski towns across the state are facing an out-of-control housing crisis that has driven families away and kept new families from moving to Colorado’s resort counties. It’s easy to blame vacation homes and AirBNBs for the housing crunch, but the real cause is much simpler: There just isn’t enough housing.

Why not? Because ski-town residents oppose every single proposal for new housing. Second homeowners and landlords have been a convenient scapegoat for ski-town communities that don’t want to confront a very uncomfortable reality — that their anti-development attitudes, colloquially called NIMBY, or Not In My Backyard, are the cause of the problem.