The students had been living out of the back of a borrowed car parked illegally in a faraway beach parking lot. Away from home for the first time, working seven 16-hour days a week, these cooks had nowhere to live in an ultraprogressive town that desperately needed their labor. Hearing this, I realized: If I want to keep my restaurant open, the local housing crisis is my problem too.
Once one of the busiest fishing ports in the United States, it now has an economy that relies on the influx of tourists and wealthy second-home owners, many of whom identify as LGBTQ and revel in the town's inclusivity and peculiarity. The drag performer Dina Martina likes to call Provincetown a "delightful little ashtray of a town." I agree, but with one footnote: Some of the burning issues in town are profound-an extreme version of what's happening in the U.S. economy as a whole.
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