While parts of the country struggle with a glut of housing, Vidalia has just the opposite problem — not enough housing and not enough space to quickly develop new housing.

It’s a problem that many other towns would kill to have.

The housing issue in Vidalia means that the town is growing.

With additional development on the riverfront, a relatively new Walmart SuperCenter and more new strip malls than you can shake a stick at, Vidalia is truly living up to its slogan — the City on the Move.

Obviously, for folks who know Vidalia’s history that phrase has dual meaning because the town literally moved back from the Mississippi River in the late 1930s.

And in a way, Vidalia hasn’t stopped moving. And that’s the problem. As the town has continued to grow recently, the availability of affordable houses has become scarce.

The town is working with state resources to begin rehabilitating some of the blighted areas of the city, but likely that work won’t be enough. The town needs additional apartments and new areas for housing developments.

Vidalia has increasingly become a bigger fish in a small pond. The solution is going to be making the pond a bit bigger.