Jackson continues to address housing issue

The Jackson Town Council is continuing to figure out the affordable housing issue.

Officials are looking at new ways to take on this issue.

“It’s the affordability of housing,” planning director Tyler Sinclair said. “We don’t have enough supply to keep the rents down and sales price of free market homes down, so there’s always been a struggle.”

Especially with the seasonal workforce. Officials said they’re starting to talk about seasonal housing options a little more now.

“We haven’t really discussed that, be it temporary housing in other campgrounds, or temporary micro housing,” Sinclair said. “Those sorts of ideas we haven’t explored a lot in the past, so as move forward that’s probably a new area for us to look at a little bit.”

He said they’re looking for immediate and long terms ways to address this. Everything from having employers provide housing to employment based campgrounds, even a one-percent general revenue tax that will be on the upcoming ballot.