Erin Eddy hasn’t hidden his frustration with Ouray’s shortage of affordable housing.

Last summer, he took to social media and posted a sign outside the Ouray Brewery, attributing the restaurant’s shortened hours to staffing issues “due to the proliferation of second home ownership and VRBO’s in the City of Ouray and a directly related extreme shortage of any long-term rental properties available for employee housing.”

He’s been renting rooms and houses around the county, shuffling em...