To the Editor:
One of the issues regarding affordable housing is that many young and/or single workers cannot even afford “affordable housing.” They are often relegated to damp basements, outbuildings, crowded houses, and summer tents. They are sales and service workers, too affluent for social assistance, but too poor to afford decent housing. Clusters of 10- or 12-unit studio apartments, modeled after Island Elderly Housing, would be an affordable alternative for those who work in food service, hospitality, transportation, sales, and other customer service occupations. These are the workers that sustain our mostly tourist economy.
L.M. Smith
Oak Bluffs
