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Dear Jefferson County Commissioners,
I was excited to see Commissioner Dudley-Nollette at the Homelessness Task Force meeting today but I had hoped she could stay long enough to hear my talk about home sharing. She could
not and the whole thing had to be truncated due to time so I am reaching out to all of you via email. Clallam County Commissioner Randy Johnson has told me that both you, Ms. Dudley-Nollette,
and you, Mr. Brotherson, have been interested in what he has said to you about my efforts along this line. I hope Ms. Heisenhour will be interested too.
I am a retired physician who is trying to promote home sharing as a way to make more affordable housing available, as well as alleviating loneliness and providing a little more income
for many of our community's elderly home owners and maybe some help maintaining their property so they can stay in their own homes as long as possible. I have a 20 minute presentation
that I would love to share with you and anyone else ( Port Townsend City Council, Chamber of Commerce?) that you feel would be interested in seeing it. May I come and show it to you,
at least, as a first step? Or, if you know how to share slides over Zoom, which I do not, I could send you my presentation and then join your meeting on Zoom and talk you through them.
Or I invite you to come to or watch online my next public talk at the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce meeting Aug. 13 at the Red Lion Inn. Sometime between 11:30 AM and 1:00 PM, I will
be giving this talk. Marc Abshire, Executive Director of the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce wants to help promote this.
Sharon Maggard of Serenity House and Christy Smith of United Way are meeting with me later this week to try to come up with a collaborative model for the “partner agency” that Nesterly
( the company whose process I feel would be best for out area) requires so we can come up with the upfront money we would need to hire them without "breaking the bank" of any one organization,
and have some personnel support besides just me to spread the idea, and help people enroll in their services once they decide to be home hosts or once they decide to apply to be renters.
I will need some help if we get that far.
I look at this as more of a way to prevent more people from becoming homeless than getting currently homeless folks off the street, but that is important, too, and I think Nesterly's
protocol is comprehensive enough that our elderly homeowners would feel comfortable using it, especially once there are a couple of success stories out there. Take a look at Nesterly.com
for details about how they operate and the safeguards they build into their process.
Thank you for your time in considering this idea.
Nancy Stephanz
360-797-1015