Bennet sits down with Routt County leaders to discuss local affordability challenges

Bennet sits down with Routt County leaders to discuss local affordability challenges

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet sat down with Routt County leaders in Steamboat Springs on Thursday for a wide‑ranging, often blunt conversation about how rising costs are reshaping life in the Yampa Valley — and what local officials say they need from Washington to keep the community livable for working people.​ For an hour, Bennet listened as county officials, city leaders and nonprofit directors described a community where the cost of housing, child…