After Old Forge/Webb and North Hudson, Lake George is the latest community to let xenophobia sabotage a solution to a town's well-identified long-term housing shortage.
The Lake George Mirror reports that a state-funded to build workforce housing for employees who fill jobs in the heavily tourist dependent region is likely dead because of local opposition. It is based on irrational fears of so-called "illegals" filling the housing. Except the county already has a legally-binding order preventing business owners from housing (mostly Latino) undocumented immigrants.
More workforce housing is a badly needed in Lake George, according to nearly all business owners. Yet again, bigots are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
Nobody expects anything from far-right US Rep. Elise Stefanik but it would be nice if either of the region's state legislators - Sen. Dan Stec and Assemblyman Matt Simpson - had the guts to speak out about this cancer sabotaging economic solutions to our area. Easy as it is to blame Scapegoat Albany for everything, there are some issues where we have to look in the mirror.
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