Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at

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Okay, last week on the show, Cody Townsend and I talked a bit about the affordable housing

shortages and the profusion of short-term rentals that had become increasingly common in

mountain towns.

And as I mentioned in that conversation, this week we are hoping to shed more light on

a number of the relevant dynamics, with the help of our

guests today, Dr. Jenny Stuber.

Dr. Stuber is a sociologist who has recently published the book Aspen and the American

Dream, How One Town Manages Inequality in the era of Super Gentrification.

In our conversation today, Jenny talks about some of the factors and policies that the town of

Aspen has employed, and we discuss which of these things can be enacted in other towns

to help navigate the needs of full-time residents, part-time residents, local workers, and the

visitors that many mountain towns rely on. So whether you live in a mountain town or love to visit

them, my hope is that this conversation will help all of us better understand and think

through the various factors and forces at play here

and how we all can work to mitigate them. And with that, let's go ahead and get to my conversation with

Dr. Jenny Stuber. Here we go. Well, Jenny, how are you today and where are you today?

So I am doing fine slash fantastic.

I will say that I'm in Jacksonville, Florida, having been back to my home of Jacksonville,

Florida, where I'm a college professor in the field of sociology.

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