Gateway Towns Have a $40 Billion Problem - And Your 1% Can Help Fix It

Gateway towns serving national parks like the Grand Canyon, Olympic, Yellowstone, and Bryce Canyon generate $40 billion in tourism revenue. But the people who make it all work can't afford to live there anymore.

Rent's up 60% since 2018. Workers are commuting hours just to serve your morning coffee. Communities are fracturing when their essential workers become economic refugees.

The Triple Crisis

Most solutions tackle these problems one at a time:

Housing crisis → Build more units
Skills gap → Create training programs
Social isolation → Fund community programs

But these issues are interconnected. Housing without job training creates dependency. Training without stable housing doesn't stick. Both without community support leads to turnover and isolation.

The Nesting Solution

Our foundation takes a different approach. We treat housing, workforce development, and community building as one integrated system because that's how they actually work in people's lives.

Through our partnership with Vuild and Koki Akiyoshi, a Japanese architect, we're testing breakthrough construction methods that let young adults build their own communities. Think precision-cut building components that snap together - but the real magic happens when residents learn construction skills while creating their own housing solutions.

They get stable housing, practical job training, and tight community connections all at once. Instead of being passive recipients of affordable housing, they become active participants in solving their own challenges.

Why I Ask Investors to Also Donate

When you invest in our fund, you're backing profitable workforce housing in predictable tourism markets. When you donate to our foundation, you're funding the research that makes those investments even better.

Your foundation donation tests integrated solutions in real conditions, documents what works, and shares everything openly so other communities can replicate success.

Plus your charitable donation is tax-deductible, while fund management fees aren't.

What Your 1% Actually Does

Funds breakthrough construction research, trains young adults in practical skills, proves the integrated model works, and shares solutions industry-wide.

If this approach reduces construction costs by 25% across the affordable housing sector, that's billions in savings that can build communities instead of padding overhead.

Two Paths, Same Mission

Fund investment: Profitable workforce housing where tourism demand is predictable
Foundation donation: Research that revolutionizes how we solve interconnected community challenges

Both create value - financial returns through the fund, societal transformation through the foundation.

Ready to turn a $40 billion problem into sustainable solutions?