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Will Courts Bust Realtor Cartel?
Underway in federal court, a class action suit takes aim at one impediment to affordable housing: the fees charged by realtors. I’ve always found realtors ironic and disingenuous listening to them opine on the “free market” when, they stand protected behind one of the largest collectively bargained, price-fixing schemes in the U.S. when it comes to their fees.
September 2023 News – What Public Employees Can Learn From Ski Operations, Energy Program Empowers Communities Through Outreach and Expertise

July 2023 News – LIHTC Properties, Vintage Four Year Area Plan, Navigating the Path to Federal Funding

June 2023 News – Community Metrics and Council Pay, NLF client profile, New Workforce Development Manager, Vintage 45th!
Past Newsletters
- INSIGHTS Issue: 5 – Insuring Enforcement Approaches Blind Corner
- INSIGHTS Issue: 4 – A Housing Theory of Everything
- INSIGHTS Issue: 3 – High Speed Chase, Police Wage Shopping
- INSIGHTS Issue: 2 – Is the Housing Issue Really Different Now?
- INSIGHTS Issue: 1 – A Case for Public Entities Housing Their Own
- February 2023 News – From Poppy Fields to Housing Fields, Is Housing now an issue for The State to Solve?, Gas Stoves and Post Office Woes
- January 2023 News – Progress, Culture and The Trust Gap – Another Angle
- December 2022 News – Celebrating Thirty Orbits Around the Sun from Colorado
- November 2022 News – Muni Sales Tax Windfall and The New Sin Tax, Northwest Loan Fund (NLF) hosts State Conference, The NWCCOG welcomes new Fiscal Assistant
- October 2022 News – Federal Support Welcome, Antedotum Inc,, Vintage’s Steamboat Office, Energy Program welcomes new employees
- September 2022 News – Child Poverty, Vintage Community Conversation, NLF, Affordable Connectivity
- August 2022 News – Mobile Home Parks, Rural Communication, Energy
- July 2022 News – The Great Resignation, Granby protects small-town culture, water issues
- June 2022 News – REverse Demographics, Jan 6 committee uncovers hate speech to election workers..
- May News – Is State Losing Its Mojo and other news from Region Econ Summit
- April 22 – Roof tops or Tents, BAR-U-EAT, Combating Calamity
- March 2022 – 4 Day Work Week. THOR, Mountain Pine Manufacturing
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December – Tackling the Mental Health Crisis together
- November 21
- October 21 – Where have all the workers gone?
- September 2021 – Guest Authors Tina Strang and Erin Fisher
- August 2021 – Emails are not a job, THOR in the canyon, Admin Team
- July 2021 – Wages, Jobs, Going Back to Work
- A Mountain Migration Tipping Point? June 2021
- May 2021 – “Updates from the Water Quality & Quantity Committee – QQ” REVISED 9/21
- April 2021 – “Slow and Fast Thinking on a Public Board”
- March 2021 – “Grateful”
- February 2021 – “Complexity of Grief”
- January 2021 – “Protect this House, Our House”
- December 2020 – “Closing Down 2020”
- November 2020 – “Call to Action: Speak to Your Legislators About Cleaning Up SB20-2017”
- October 2020 – “Guest Edition: Sustainable Housing”
- October 2020 – “Winter of Our Discontent? We Got This?”
- September 2020 – “Have They Suddenly Become Satanic Villains?”
- August 2020 – “Conversations with Managers: So How ARE Public Employees Doing?”
- July 2020 – “The Art of Adding Value”
- June 2020 – “Use of Force? What Defunding Police Means”
- May 2020 – “What If It Isn’t Going Away?”
- April 2020 – “What is an Oath?”
- March 2020 – “The Lost Art of Hunkering Down: Can We Chill?”
- February 2020 – “Conservation Easements and Public Responsibility”
- January 2020 – “Cigar”
- From the Director’s desk… Guest Author Erin Fisher
Growing Your Own Workforce

Growing Your Own Workforce Part 1 – Empowering the Community: Colorado Mountain College Nurtures Local Talent for a Strong Workforce
Colorado Mountain College (CMC), a leading educational institution serving the entire NWCCOG region, with three full-service residential campuses and eight community campuses, stands as an exemplary model for listening to workforce needs, adapting curriculum to place their students in a position for those opportunities.
Growing Your Own Workforce Part 3 – Growing Our Own: A Community-Oriented Approach to Policing in Snowmass Village
Workforce Housing Series
