Affordable Workforce Housing Examined.

As remote working is on the rise, central management pushes back with new terminology!

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In pursuit of understanding what is intended by the terms, “workforce housing” or “affordable workforce housing”, as used by local leaders, I looked at the mentor organization of the Boothbay Region Housing Trust, the Island Housing Trust, located on Martha’s Vineyard.

BRHT does not have a website, and so the Island Housing Trust is a stand-in, pursuant to this Boothbay Register article BRHT looks to Martha’s Vineyard’s housing model

It will take some time to look at all the pieces of the plan and how they all coordinate but I am starting with one piece at a time. In this post, I will be focusing on the Hanover House model that the Island Housing Trust developed, using short-term loans to purchase former inns and bed and breakfasts which are transformed into “workforce housing apartments” as they are referred to, but back in the twentieth century, they would have just been called rooms for rent.

It is not too difficult to argue that one of the big causes of the no-l…