Vail Resorts facing employee backlash over roommate plan

Just two weeks after pledging to commit $30 million to increase affordable workforce housing near its resorts in Colorado, Utah and California, Broomfield-based Vail Resorts is facing heat from employees over a plan to increase density in some of its workforce housing in Colorado to two people per bedroom.

The Summit Daily News reports that, after announcing what employees apparently interpreted as the mandatory “doubling-up” in bedrooms at a Keystone workforce housing facility where bunk beds were going to be added in many rooms, Vail officials told the paper that they were in fact not forcing any employees to double up. Rather, they were offering reduced rent to employees who take on roommates to help ease the housing crunch.

That rate, the paper reports, would drop from $460 per worker per month at the Tenderfoot units in Keystone to $330 per month. Those figures further upset some workers, who noted that the increased density would also increase the amount of rent Vail Resorts receives per unit.

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