NeahCasa

Serving the Nehalem Bay area

When the subject of housing affordability first comes up in our coastal communities, it appears to be a tangle of impossibly complicated issues too difficult to unravel. It is tempting as mere mortals to throw up our hands in despair.

Yet, NeahCasa has been pulling gently on each thread since early 2005 and we are finding that if we want it to, the whole tangle has the potential to sort out into win/win solutions for us all.

This website is about both the challenges and some potential solutions, both locally and beyond. Not all will work in any one place, but taken together they provide a broad enough scope for some new perspectives and can help us move towards truly sustainable communities.

Not everyone sees it the way we do - in fact, some of the political powers that be, both locally and beyond, are hesitant to admit there is a problem. But we need to see beyond our differences. We need to work together with open minds and open hearts.


Here is a PDF of our recent August 2010 Newsletter. Come to the Green Charrette on September 18 - a collaborative all day session to move forward on creating a model neighborhood on 10.5 acres just outside Nehalem. Details here.

 

 On this site you can find answers to some of these questions plus lots more:

• Why it's especially hard to create affordable housing at the coast or in other resort communities.
•  Definitions of "affordable housing" or "workforce," or "low-income"?
• Do you wish you could buy a home?
• What local governments or ordinary citizens can do? Or designers and builders? or local investors?

Together we can make things happen.
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

 

Click here for a very condensed version of the NeahCasa website >>


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