| "We lived in Ipswich for 38 years. We had a five bedroom three and a half bath, house. We could no longer support that big of a house and we couldn’t get affordable accommodations within Ipswich."
Louise and John Nirider, Residents, Haverhill, MA The quotes shown on this page all come from a video produced to support the home@last campaign |
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“You’ll see full-page ads from the state of North Carolina trying to attract professional workers down there. When you can go down there and buy twice the house for half the price, it’s a no brainer.” |
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“The children of the people of the fishing industry, they’ve moved on to other things. And they can’t afford to buy a house here, not only do they feel that they were displaced by not being able to be a part of the heritage that Gloucester is, but that they’ve been thrown out of their community. One of these days Gloucester could become a ghost town really, you know, full of strangers.”
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“It really helps to keep the fabric of the community together. What happens is if you begin to have housing prices so expensive that the teachers can no longer afford to live in the community, the DPW workers, the city workers can no longer afford to live in the community, the community itself beings to break down.” – Rev. Elizabeth Horne, Associate Pastor, The United Church of Christ |
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“We recruit faculty from all over the United States and abroad and one of our big issues when we go to hire qualified faculty is one of the cost of housing. Faculty for example from the Midwest or from the South will simply say ‘we cannot afford to move here’”.
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“It now affects every level of the economic strata, whether you are trying to recruit a cardiac surgeon or a teller or an entry-level position in another business. It’s a problem for everybody.” |