Wealth inequality in the West
On housing and the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us
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In late July, on a moderately smoky day in the Four Corners, I made my way from the Great Sage Plain into the San Juan Mountains for a book event. I drove alongside the Dolores River, through the quiet old mining burg of Rico, and up and over Lizard Head Pass, seeing surprisingly few cars. Then I took a right at Society Turn and got stuck in the chronic…