I dont know where they've been, but this is everywhere. Wait until all the J1 and H2B workers are denied and all these places close up. then the ones who patronize these establishments will have no where to go. And you cant put 3 people in an 8x8 room and expect them to live and work
It is even worse here on Mount Desert Island. There is no long term housing at all in the summer and few winter rentals for the rest of the year. Locally, the only restaurants I know of that are open 7 days a week provide housing for their employees. I am in Bass Harbor where more than half of the homes are either summer homes for people from away or short term rentals. On my road there are 10 houses and five of then are short term rentals and two are summer homes. On the plus side it is very quiet here in the winter. Also most of the jobs on the island are seasonal and don't pay well. Many of the people that work year round on the island live off the island because they can't afford the housing here. The people who commute onto the island include doctors and my dentist.
To what extent is the housing problem down to second home ownership? Here in the UK it increasingly seems this is hollowing out communities: wealthy people who live elsewhere most of the year buy up homes in a picturesque area. They aren’t there most of the year, so the housing isn’t available for others and they don’t lend any appreciable support to local bushinesses because they’re rarely around. Others buy up property to let out for short term rentals. The renters expect the local shops, restaurants and entertainment businesses to be open (that’s why they come), but just don’t understand that there is nowhere for the staff they expect to see on hand to live. It’s all over Europe as well: what the tourists come for is unavailable because the tourists make life for the locals impossible. It’s sad: my husband and I honeymooned in Maine and I’m very glad we did that when we did, 34 years ago.
@@todddunn945 ya I was.going to say..lol..I do these rich people's roofs..like actors, music stars, sports stars..8k sqft home empty 11 months but everything still working..heat pumps going, fridge , water heaters..and its all a waste
In the US, especially scenic areas, they’re called 2/4/10 houses. 2 people, occupied 4 weeks per year, 10,000 square feet or more. In most cities/suburbs, corporate and private equity funds are buying up middle class housing, sometimes for short-term rentals, more often to rent out at ever-higher monthly rates. In more and more US areas, the median income doesn’t afford the median cost of rent or mortgage payments.
EXACTLY what has been happening here in the US, as well .... (Especially in all the "coastal" communities) .... The RICH are buying up EVERYTHING.... causing a SERIOUS housing problem that continues to worsen ...... Tradesman are moving away and stores closing .... One day the RICH people WON'T have service men and women to DO for them ..... KARMA ....
Im a Brit living on Coast of Maine and its usually ,just like towns such as Bridlington and Blackpool and coastal towns in Cornwall have turned to the tourism industry due to the traditional way of earning a living dying off. Here in Boothbay Harbor they send young men out working for the town to use leaf blowers on the side walks during summer to keep the place looking clean. Who for ? not residents since it stops then in fall when all have gone home.
The local banks can copy a model used elsewhere called povety banking. It is giving very low interest to small locals to include them in the mainstream economy. Weaving looms yarns women make money food co-ops to sell wholesome foods housing to buy build rehab the hundreds or REO HUD foreclosed or even market ready with the proper finances poor people can be housed and earn...if they are not drug addicted or psychotic fools on the streets.
SADLY, ANY tourism business WILL continue to "suffer", in what WAS once a thriving, high tourism area .... The wealthy people are "buying up" property at an ALARMING rate ...... Throwing communities out of balance, .... This WILL cause less hotels/motels, less restaurants, gift/novelty shops, etc .....
NOTE : Just like during the Pandemic, ... when SOOO MANY people stayed at home, while the TRUE WORKING FOLKS "KEPT THEM FED," and their NEEDS "taken care of" .... out in the public !!!!!!!!!!!!! We worked LONG, HARD HOURS, while other "cowardly stayed at home , .... like SHEEP
Was there ever a time that hospitality workers could live in at tourist town? Ski resort workers have been complaining about this for decades. I often work in NYC in the trades but no one I work with actually lives in the city. We all commute some distance to work. Just how it is.
Housing in America has become too expensive for the working class. Wall Street investors and greedy Real Estate companies,along with local cities just want more and more for a place to live. All they care about is short term profit no matter the damage to people. Property taxes are based on a perceived value rather than what people can afford to pay. The home owner doesn’t get to realize any increase in value unless they sell their home but the city wants that value every year Whig isn’t equitable for the home owner. Cities are taxing people out of their homes,especially those of us that are retired and on a fixed income.
The free market is dictated by individual choices, we dont need communism and fascist government regulations we need individuals to improve their personal morality and make thoughtful choices.
I remember a news feature on housing for teachers working in San Francisco schools who have to commute from out of the area because it’s just too expensive to live there on teacher salaries. I don’t recall if this was pre-pandemic, but I would think it’s still an issue.
@@copyprint-fz2hb Then employers don't get to complain when there's nobody to wash the dishes. LOL. Cuts both ways - market dynamics are a bitch, aren't they? Tourist economies destroy communities. Trust me, I'm from N. Idaho. We used to have 5 sawmills in the city limits. Now there are zero. Gentrification sent everybody blue-collar packing. Downtown is just AirBNB's now. If you want me to come do work for you, it's $100/hr. Don't worry about me if that's too expensive for you, my phone rings off the hook. The resorts can't handle all the events and tourists they could potentially have because there's nobody here to work. The kids leave right after High School - they have to - and the area just keeps getting older and older.
@@copyprint-fz2hb Then employers don't get to complain when there's nobody to wash the dishes. LOL. Cuts both ways - market dynamics are a bitch, aren't they? Tourist economies destroy communities. Trust me, I'm from N. Idaho. We used to have 5 sawmills in the city limits. Now there are zero. Gentrification sent everybody blue-collar packing. Downtown is just AirBNB's now. If you want me to come do work for you, it's $100/hr. Don't worry about me if that's too expensive for you, my phone rings off the hook. The resorts can't handle all the events and tourists they could potentially have because there's nobody here to work. The kids leave right after High School - they have to - and the area just keeps getting older and older.
‘Serving’ and ‘housekeeping,’ like working in fast food, were never intended to be grown up, save-to-buy-a-house and send-the-kids-to-college single income careers. The jobs were always for low-skilled teenagers living at home nearby, college students home for the summer, young adults sharing lodging, put up in cheap housing on the outskirts of the resort property, or supplementing their spouses’ careers. Anymore, the pool of job candidates are full grown adults, as low-skilled as they ever were, have no spouse, demand part-time flex schedules and benefits, yet expect to be able to afford the lifestyle and housing the tourists they serve have. The issue definitely isn’t ‘affordable housing’ - it’s the refusal of teenagers and young adults to actually perform ‘menial’ labor (as if it’s beneath them), the misconception that low-skilled labor is equivalent to high-skilled labor, and the belief they should be able to live wherever they want in comfort. America’s lost its mind.
I say the same thing..its maine..not a very good state to work in..nice outdoors but the economy is crap over taxed that's why businesses and people leave instead of coming
This gives a new meaning to the Company Store. Again.
Lack of affordable housing is a nationwide problem, and it's getting worse, thus causing more homelessness.
Not if you are an illegal immigrant😂.
@@TekkWolf Free rent money for them here in Colo & asking for more this Nov through guess it...more taxes on the middle class:(
I dont know where they've been, but this is everywhere. Wait until all the J1 and H2B workers are denied and all these places close up. then the ones who patronize these establishments will have no where to go. And you cant put 3 people in an 8x8 room and expect them to live and work
This isn’t just happening in Maine, it’s happening near all resort areas (beaches, mountains, etc) & metropolitan areas like Charlotte NC.
It is even worse here on Mount Desert Island. There is no long term housing at all in the summer and few winter rentals for the rest of the year. Locally, the only restaurants I know of that are open 7 days a week provide housing for their employees. I am in Bass Harbor where more than half of the homes are either summer homes for people from away or short term rentals. On my road there are 10 houses and five of then are short term rentals and two are summer homes. On the plus side it is very quiet here in the winter. Also most of the jobs on the island are seasonal and don't pay well. Many of the people that work year round on the island live off the island because they can't afford the housing here. The people who commute onto the island include doctors and my dentist.
Ban short-term rentals and tax homes that are not main residence and sit empty.
HIGHER TAXES for 2 & 3 homes
To what extent is the housing problem down to second home ownership? Here in the UK it increasingly seems this is hollowing out communities: wealthy people who live elsewhere most of the year buy up homes in a picturesque area. They aren’t there most of the year, so the housing isn’t available for others and they don’t lend any appreciable support to local bushinesses because they’re rarely around. Others buy up property to let out for short term rentals. The renters expect the local shops, restaurants and entertainment businesses to be open (that’s why they come), but just don’t understand that there is nowhere for the staff they expect to see on hand to live. It’s all over Europe as well: what the tourists come for is unavailable because the tourists make life for the locals impossible. It’s sad: my husband and I honeymooned in Maine and I’m very glad we did that when we did, 34 years ago.
What you said fits the part of Maine I live in perfectly.
@@todddunn945 ya I was.going to say..lol..I do these rich people's roofs..like actors, music stars, sports stars..8k sqft home empty 11 months but everything still working..heat pumps going, fridge , water heaters..and its all a waste
In the US, especially scenic areas, they’re called 2/4/10 houses.
2 people, occupied 4 weeks per year, 10,000 square feet or more.
In most cities/suburbs, corporate and private equity funds are buying up middle class housing, sometimes for short-term rentals, more often to rent out at ever-higher monthly rates.
In more and more US areas, the median income doesn’t afford the median cost of rent or mortgage payments.
EXACTLY what has been happening here in the US, as well .... (Especially in all the "coastal" communities) .... The RICH are buying up EVERYTHING.... causing a SERIOUS housing problem that continues to worsen ...... Tradesman are moving away and stores closing .... One day the RICH people WON'T have service men and women to DO for them ..... KARMA ....
Im a Brit living on Coast of Maine and its usually ,just like towns such as Bridlington and Blackpool and coastal towns in Cornwall have turned to the tourism industry due to the traditional way of earning a living dying off. Here in Boothbay Harbor they send young men out working for the town to use leaf blowers on the side walks during summer to keep the place looking clean. Who for ? not residents since it stops then in fall when all have gone home.
Name one place that servers can afford to live close to their employer? No where.
It's like that in all of New England
What's the common democra------ denominator?
Same on Cape Cod ..... Most ALL coastal communities... SADLY !!!!
You got em working for you, giving your money back to you in rent. Now all you have to do is pay them in company script. 👍
The local banks can copy a model used elsewhere called povety banking. It is giving very low interest to small locals to include them in the mainstream economy. Weaving looms yarns women make money food co-ops to sell wholesome foods housing to buy build rehab the hundreds or REO HUD foreclosed or even market ready with the proper finances poor people can be housed and earn...if they are not drug addicted or psychotic fools on the streets.
SADLY, ANY tourism business WILL continue to "suffer", in what WAS once a thriving, high tourism area .... The wealthy people are "buying up" property at an ALARMING rate ...... Throwing communities out of balance, .... This WILL cause less hotels/motels, less restaurants, gift/novelty shops, etc .....
BAN AIRBNB NOW
Go to Cuba if you want communism 😂
And what about people who have second homes without renting them out?
@@mvcharisma How about you go back to Cuba .... Take some more with ya .... 🤣🤣😂🙂😉
What’s the difference between “extreme measures” and appropriate measures?
How many people in hotels not working..hundreds around lewiston auburn
NOTE : Just like during the Pandemic, ... when SOOO MANY people stayed at home, while the TRUE WORKING FOLKS "KEPT THEM FED," and their NEEDS "taken care of" .... out in the public !!!!!!!!!!!!! We worked LONG, HARD HOURS, while other "cowardly stayed at home , .... like SHEEP
Was there ever a time that hospitality workers could live in at tourist town? Ski resort workers have been complaining about this for decades. I often work in NYC in the trades but no one I work with actually lives in the city. We all commute some distance to work. Just how it is.
Housing in America has become too expensive for the working class. Wall Street investors and greedy Real Estate companies,along with local cities just want more and more for a place to live. All they care about is short term profit no matter the damage to people. Property taxes are based on a perceived value rather than what people can afford to pay. The home owner doesn’t get to realize any increase in value unless they sell their home but the city wants that value every year Whig isn’t equitable for the home owner. Cities are taxing people out of their homes,especially those of us that are retired and on a fixed income.
BINGO ..... Invetor "GREED" .... The RICH want "total control" .......
hence why most employers seem to only employ j2 students from overseas.
Which THEY Take Our Jobs…. The Whole “ System” Is A Mess 😢
Some restaurants on Cape Cod for years have provided housing for summer help as part of their pay.
Same story all across the US.
“Free markets” are making basic necessities unaffordable for an ever-increasing percentage of the population.
The free market is dictated by individual choices, we dont need communism and fascist government regulations we need individuals to improve their personal morality and make thoughtful choices.
The same problem exists in the famous Hamptons on Long Island. Workers can’t afford to live there and must drive an hour to get to work
So buying up property to house workers but driving prices further out of reach in the process.
just like our in the north dakota oil fields.
Income inequality!
Thats smart. Before taking a job request your employer provides below market rent 30 percent of you wage or whatever.
What can be done to discourage the ownership of more than one home. Increase taxes on second homes?
DRAMATICALLY increase taxes .... IF it don't hurt their wallets, it WON'T be effective !!
Maine is a very expensive place to live and the voters like it that way. It’s not for me but it seems to work well for them
Keeps illegals away!!!!
It's called commuting to work. Driving 30 miles to work is not uncommon where I live.
I remember a news feature on housing for teachers working in San Francisco schools who have to commute from out of the area because it’s just too expensive to live there on teacher salaries. I don’t recall if this was pre-pandemic, but I would think it’s still an issue.
The issue may be they need more housing, not just cheaper.
this is true everywhere where there is tourism. The employers need to house their employees and pay them a living wage $25/hour minimum
you get paid for what your worth , NOT what you think your entitled
@@copyprint-fz2hb Then employers don't get to complain when there's nobody to wash the dishes. LOL. Cuts both ways - market dynamics are a bitch, aren't they? Tourist economies destroy communities. Trust me, I'm from N. Idaho. We used to have 5 sawmills in the city limits. Now there are zero. Gentrification sent everybody blue-collar packing. Downtown is just AirBNB's now. If you want me to come do work for you, it's $100/hr. Don't worry about me if that's too expensive for you, my phone rings off the hook. The resorts can't handle all the events and tourists they could potentially have because there's nobody here to work. The kids leave right after High School - they have to - and the area just keeps getting older and older.
@@copyprint-fz2hb Then employers don't get to complain when there's nobody to wash the dishes. LOL. Cuts both ways - market dynamics are a bitch, aren't they? Tourist economies destroy communities. Trust me, I'm from N. Idaho. We used to have 5 sawmills in the city limits. Now there are zero. Gentrification sent everybody blue-collar packing. Downtown is just AirBNB's now. If you want me to come do work for you, it's $100/hr. Don't worry about me if that's too expensive for you, my phone rings off the hook. The resorts can't handle all the events and tourists they could potentially have because there's nobody here to work. The kids leave right after High School - they have to - and the area just keeps getting older and older.
Then the streets will fold
That still won't cut the mustard real rate is $75+.it's seasonal somebody has to pay for your winter off
There are a lot of abandoned homes in Maine.
Good man 👍
Living wage !
Let us add that all of the major news channels are the same and are incredibly depressing.
Sounds like we have gone back to having slave houses trump 24 an apartment in Rockland was 700 a month when Trump was in office
Trump Number #1!!!!!
You voted for it.
‘Serving’ and ‘housekeeping,’ like working in fast food, were never intended to be grown up, save-to-buy-a-house and send-the-kids-to-college single income careers. The jobs were always for low-skilled teenagers living at home nearby, college students home for the summer, young adults sharing lodging, put up in cheap housing on the outskirts of the resort property, or supplementing their spouses’ careers. Anymore, the pool of job candidates are full grown adults, as low-skilled as they ever were, have no spouse, demand part-time flex schedules and benefits, yet expect to be able to afford the lifestyle and housing the tourists they serve have. The issue definitely isn’t ‘affordable housing’ - it’s the refusal of teenagers and young adults to actually perform ‘menial’ labor (as if it’s beneath them), the misconception that low-skilled labor is equivalent to high-skilled labor, and the belief they should be able to live wherever they want in comfort. America’s lost its mind.
Keep voting democrat everyone. Look what their policies do to us. TRUMP 2024
It may be to their fall. Maybe the worker is smarter and nnot sweet and rob the employer.
put down the bottle😂
Than find another job, go somewhere else.
I say the same thing..its maine..not a very good state to work in..nice outdoors but the economy is crap over taxed that's why businesses and people leave instead of coming
Nothing new Hawaii.
Ha ha
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