Via Community News Service, a University of Vermont internship, for The Stowe Reporter STOWE – As Stowe grapples with lack of affordable housing, McKee Macdonald is helping guide the conversation, through both his professional expertise and community involvement. Macdonald is co-owner of a local real estate business and chair of Stowe’s Housing Task Force. Macdonald grew up in Stowe, and his mother founded the family real estate business, The Smith Macdonald Group, in the 1980s.