There were 18 responses to this week’s Tele-Talk question, “What should affordable housing in the valley look like: apartments, condos, duplexes or small homes? Also, what monthly rent do you think should be charged?”
It should be affordable (as the question asks), other towns and cities do it all the time, I assume they are federally subsidized. For someone to maintain a house with limited income is impossible with the price of supplies going up. A recent news article said new buyers were shocked at the price of upkeeping a home, just look around at some of the homes in need of work. I guess they can’t afford to fix them, so there goes their investment. Housing continues to go up, because taxes do. Gary Leblanc
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