Mountain resorts, like remote work camps, can provide housing. If they really want workers, and the local zoning is hostile, then they either need to build dorms or admit a failed business model.
I interviewed for the water treatment facility for Vail and part of the package was heavily-subsidized employee housing. It was the only way for them to get the salary numbers to work out.
Theft is the unauthorized taking of another's property; eminent domain is the power of a state to take private property for public use which means it's expressly authorized. Eminent domain is included as state power in the US Constitution, so considering eminent domain as theft means partially rejecting the authority of the Constitution.
I think that's well within the scope of this conversation, but if we're going to be worried about the conversion of a private golf course into housing then we should really talk about what happened with Native American land treaties.
tl;dr: if we're redefining theft then that opens a huge can of worms.
Compensating landowners doesn't mean it's not theft. If I broke into your house and stole all your stuff, but left a pile of cash of equal value, it's still stealing.
Land is different. Land rights are defined and protected by a government. A better example is if I gave you a tractor, then a few years later said actually I need that tractor back and gave you the value of what it's worth.
> Now houses are for guests and hotels are for employee housing
This kind of raises an interesting question. Why did hotel style housing that you rent long term go away? As long term lodging houses used to be pretty common.
“due to high cost of living” would be shorter than the current “cuz..." and convey the same information. Once you can't quote the full original title, you are rewriting to compress while preserving meaning, just dropping words and using misspellings that are shorter and phonetic approximations may not be the best way to do that.
I wonder if we see more and more people using a plane multiple times per week to reach their destination[^1] from a low-cost housing location because it's too expensive to live in the high-cost destination.
