Issue Position: Affordable Housing

Issue Position

Over the last five years, the housing market in Bellingham, Skagit, Anacortes, and the counties surrounding them have experienced an exponential boom in value. For our elders who have lived in this community for decades, the cost of living has driven many from their homes. This is strikes a personal chord with Debra who was raised by her grandmother in their family home in southeastern Alaska. Without this place for her to grow up, and have her grandmother live out her years of twilight in peaceful, comfortable surroundings, Debra would not be the woman she is today.

Debra is looking to strengthen the security of the aging parents and grandparents in the 40th by proposing a senior citizen exemption plan that is set by a threshold of median income level by county. Taking care of the generations who came to make the 40th the community it is today is an important piece in protecting the future of the 40th LD.

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