Native Vermonters are getting priced out of the state; this is a fact. Native Vermonters are just not on the same playing field as new Vermonters. There are incentives for New Vermonters to move here and work remote, the housing market is priced way out of bounds for nearly any family to live here. The focus of tourism and bringing in outside money has been to the detriment of the local economy and I am glad OP is at least writing about it, and suggesting things even if said things are dog shit.

Perhaps the real solution is to create equity - every remote worker that moves here and receives the benefit should see a tax hike of 1% on their income and property taxes for a min of 5 years. That money should be paid to the Natives or be a benefit to the natives that are having issues of housing security.

Now before anyone calls me racist or xenophobic - my family has real roots here! Not just white anglo roots either. While a good amount of my family is white and culturally french, you cannot ignore the fact that my father's maternal family were descendants of indigenous people. We have just as much rights to here as anyone else, but it would be heart breaking to see yet another descendant of indigenous people being pushed away from their home land wouldn't it? Frankly, that part of my family history is not the reason I champion for the native Vermonter to receive equity - but I ask this because the very culture and heritage of Vermont is at stake. Made in Vermont doesn't mean shit without us, we are Vermont - the good, the bad and even the ugly. Shit our statesman was a redneck who got drunk and rounded up his extended family to publicly whip a judge for invalidating his land grants - that is the very spirit of Vermont in a nutshell.

While most of us have not been welcoming of "flatlanders", we simply need to detox from their money and figure out a better solution for our economy that does NOT involve tourism and affords quality exports made from resources we have here.