Now one of the proposals being offered by the Forest Service is to cut the number of user days in half. We are already restricting this public asset to a tiny population of wealthy people. The current thinking seems to be to restrict it even more. Affordable housing, on the other hand, is an economic problem that the market system can and will work out. It is not specifically a democratic issue, as much as people would like to make it one.
Housing is expensive here, so there is a shortage of local workers, in general.
Workers will have more money to spend on housing. As the rental and lower cost housing becomes more lucrative, supply will increase and the problem will mediate itself. The point is that the market continues to adapt to the perturbations. Right now this struggle between democratic principles and economic forces is being played out locally, but it is happening on a much bigger scale as well. As the Third World develops, its problems will become ours.