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Here’s a fundamental question Wyoming lawmakers keep ignoring at the state’s peril: What kind of a future do we have when workers can’t find anywhere they can afford to live?
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I know it pales in comparison to subjects the Legislature spends so much time on, like determining what bathrooms people can use, banning library books that mention sex and erecting more barriers to voting.
But the affordable housing crisis is destined to get worse if lawmakers don’t find the political will to act now. Combined with two other major Wyoming problems — lack of affordable health care and our state’s frustrating inability to provide adequate and constit