We are losing our children. Not to accidents or illness, but to economics. They are graduating, looking at the average cost of homes, calculating what they can afford on local wages, and making the rational choice to build their futures somewhere else.

If we want our kids and grandkids to actually build their lives here in Southern Utah, we need to get serious about our housing problem.

We need to start thinking about it differently.

I get it — nobody wants to see our beautiful area overdeveloped or turned into another Salt Lake City or Las Vegas. When you see new construction going up, it's easy to think it's just the greedy developers again. But here's what we're missing: the real problem isn't growth itself, it's that every new house seems designed for retirees or wealthy transplants

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