HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Comment from Lorri FintonEmail from Lorri Finton to Jake Dewey
Lorri Finton
4:10 PM (31 minutes
ago)
to Jake
Hi 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