Town Of Edgartown: Video Series' On Affordable Housing

Press release from the Town of Edgartown:

07/13/2021 12:20 PM

As Edgartown considers potential options for addressing our own housing shortage problems, we continue to look at what's been done in other communities.  A few years back, the City of Salem took to social media to create a video series that explored the issue from their own point of view.  

Released over four consecutive days from May 20 - 23, Homes for Salem featured city officials, local housing specialists, and people directly impacted by the housing shortage discussing the problem and potential strategies to address it. 

Produced for the city by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the video series intended to "have a conversation with the community that is not just based on understanding the facts of the crisis but on understanding who is impacted and building empathy for those folks.”

Read the article in the Boston Globe.

Article: By John Laidler Globe Correspondent, Updated June 21, 2019, 1:43 p.m.
Photo: 135 Lafayette is a 51-unit affordable housing development built on the former site of St. Joseph Church in Salem.
Photo Credit: BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF/FILE 2014/GLOBE STAFF

This press release was produced by the Town of Edgartown. The views expressed here are the author’s own.