HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Comment from Finton BHAHi Jake,
I come to a town board to lend support when it is a project or issue I believe in. Please accept this
e-mail as my support of the newer 320 unit affordable and work force housing project slated for
Wilkens Lane.
We all know that we need more units on Cape that are affordable – for the kids that grew up here
and want to stay with their families close to a support system, and for the families that are
downsizing, the working people, the people that are
sometimes aptly known as the working poor. I can recall working 2 or 3 jobs to save for a vacation,
now people work 2 or 3 jobs to pay their rent. It has never been easy to be able to afford to live on
Cape Cod and not only have costs of housing gone sky high
but there is an availability issue as well.
At Barnstable Housing Authority, our waiting lists for 2- and 3-bedroom state assisted units are
several thousand families long. Those families are the schoolteachers, the librarians, and
firefighters, they are two parent households, a single parent household, grandparents raising
grandchildren, a single dad with a disabled child, they are your neighbors, the person sitting next to
you in church or in the car behind you at Dunkin’ Donuts.
We need the housing, we all know it, and we need to do something about it whenever we can.
Sincerely,
Lorri Finton
Executive Director – Barnstable Housing Authority