With construction of a seasonal apartment building under way next to a Bar Harbor golf course, Acadia National Park is close to meeting its housing goals for summer employees.

The availability of housing for its year-round employees, however, is getting worse, according to the park’s top administrator.

“The cost of real estate is only going up here, faster than our wages,” Kevin Schneider, Acadia’s superintendent, told the park’s advisory commission this week.

While the park provides housing for seasonal employees, who are critical for managing the 3.7 million visits Acadia typically gets each year from May through October, it does not have any housing for year-round employees except on a short-term basis for new hires who have started work but have yet to find a place to live.

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