Affordable Housing for Sag Harbor meets opposition

Eastern Long Island and in particular the South Fork Towns of East Hampton and Southampton have a housing crisis.

 

People who work there in schools, hospitals and the service industry can't afford to live there.

 

Eastbound morning traffic and westbound evening traffic - known as the 'Trade Parade' is glacial.

 

Last week voters in 3 east end towns approved a measure designed to help finance affordable housing  by taxing a portion of first time home sales.

 

But there are obstacles to achieving the goal of constructing affordable dwellings—not least of which is finding sites where building new housing and retail space doesn’t harm the environment or surrounding businesses and residents.

 

In historic Sag Harbor village, where home prices and store rentals have climbed in recent years - a proposal for 79 affordable apartments above retail space in the downtown area has met with opposition from residents concerned with environmental and other impacts in the area.

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Sag Harbor resident Katherine Levy.

 

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More Information about the Sag Harbor affordable housing proposal can be found in the article Affordable Housing Pitched in Sag Harbor  in the July 8 2022 issue of the East End Beacon and  the East Hampton Star 

and 27east.com

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