— from YES for Homes Coalition of San Juan County —
The YES for Homes Coalition of San Juan County extends its deep gratitude to all the voters who helped pass the historic Home Fund. We are so excited to know that soon new affordable housing will be available to more people in our county.
And to all the other supporters: endorsers, volunteers, and donors — we are appreciative that so many of our neighbors took the time to study and understand Proposition 1 and embraced the opportunity to work with us in helping to solve the affordable housing crisis in San Juan County.
To the many businesses who endorsed the Home Fund, the phone callers, those who put up yard signs, attended an informational meeting, or wrote a check: we send a huge Thank You. Your support means that approximately 400 families could obtain stable housing over the next 12 years in San Juan County!
The YES for Homes Coalition included representation from throughout the County, and from all of us – to all of you who made this happen – THANK YOU!
And let us remind the Yes for Homes Coalition of the important consensus goal in the 2017 EPRC Vision that we all worked so hard to achieve, requiring respect for the tranquility, the naturalness, the forests and eagles and open space, that we love about our island home. That the Yes for Homes document failed to reflect these principles gave me great concern, concern which I expressed strongly and directly to Coalition leaders. So congratulations on passing Measure 1 with its laudable goal of diversity in housing. As we move forward let us not lose sight of the equally laudable mandate written into the 2017 Vision that our community forever “Live Lightly on the Land”.