ELEANOR BENNETT REJOINS ASPEN PUBLIC RADIO ON NEW SOCIAL JUSTICE DESK IN COLLABORATION WITH ASPEN JOURNALISM ASPEN, Colo. (October 1, 2024) – Eleanor Bennett is rejoining Aspen Public Radio this week as the reporter on a joint Social Justice Desk in collaboration with Aspen Journalism. Bennett was an Aspen Public Radio reporter and the host […]
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All you need is luck: Playing the odds in APCHA ownership lotteries
From 2002 through 2023, a total of 32,846 bids were made for 1,278 sales of local affordable housing units that went through an APCHA lottery where the number of bids was recorded.
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Housing solutions are many and challenging
The housing issue has become a pressing concern throughout the region, where necessity becomes the mother of invention as seen in varied approaches striving to address a growing community crisis.
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Housing: Where social justice confronts economics
“This is a social justice issue when you have people traveling long distances and leaving children to fend for themselves. It is wrong for our region. Affordable housing is the underpinning of our success as a community, long term.”
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Building livable communities, one place at a time
Communities are a physical manifestation of times and places where “people come and settle together and together reflect a physical and economic manifestation of a place. Communities are our highest form of manifesting what’s best about us: art, music, culture, architecture and belonging.”
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Pitkin County’s per-capita income, third highest in the U.S., highlights growing disparity with wages
Pitkin County has the third-highest per-capita personal income in the United States, behind Teton County, Wyoming, and Summit County, Utah, thanks to high-income earners making money off investments and remote jobs, and rising local wages.
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Along the Colorado River: Where community blossoms and the economy grows
These places may be little known to much of the upper Roaring Fork Valley, but for so many who make its economy hum, it’s where they own homes, raise families, build dreams, struggle with life, and rush back and forth for employment each workday on congested highways.
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The battle for the Aspen Idea: Community or commodity?
“Paepcke’s experiment in idiosyncratic enlightened capitalism proved to be a pivotal moment in the evolution of tourism in the 20th-century West, a bridge between a more elitist past and a future of mass culture.”
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Post-war rise of skiing and culture creates both opportunity and rift
“Some of the objections for Aspen having a celebration each year are the lack of housing, the shortage of dining space for more than ordinary crowds, disrupting the free and easy life of some few Aspenites, and generally cluttering up the streets and shops with extra people, some of them with money to spend.”
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During Aspen’s Quiet Years, a challenged but cohesive community takes hold
“The lights of Aspen began to dim and softly flicker for almost 50 years. Still, the lights never went out. These were the years between prospecting and prosperity, … Aspen’s only future lay in its past. All of its dreams were trapped in its memories of yesterday.”