This is our call to action to address affordable housing | Letter to the editor

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Imagine you’ve been hired to work at our local hospital (police/fire department, school, government, business, etc.). You go online to look for rentals or even homes to buy. You look every day. Every house or apartment is snapped up right away, and not cheap. Dagnabbit!

What can our community do? Can you do something to help? Share Our Spaces is a new local program within Housing Solutions Network. We/you/me/your neighbor/ a relative might: Create an extra room or an ADU in your home to rent out; build a Detached ADU (DADU), a tiny house or a house to rent out; or donate to housing nonprofits.

I have built houses and have rentals. I wasn’t born knowing how to be a landlord or build, I’ve learned over time. You can learn also be brave! Community members from the Housing Solutions Network can help you navigate the possibilities to create housing, for example: steps to being a landlord; what is an ADU and could that rental income augment your income and lifestyle; what is involved in putting a tiny home on my lot, and more. 

Yes, you can be part of the housing solution! HousingSolutionsNetwork.org. This is a call to action. Act!

Teri Nomura
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