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January 3, 2023
Board of County Commissioners
1820 Jefferson Street
PO Box 1220
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Kate Dean, District 1 Heidi Eisenhour, District 2 Greg Brotherton, District 3
To Whom it May Concern,
Olympic Housing Trust is a newly reformed organization and has not received any funding from
Jefferson County, but we support their first project for affordable workforce housing in Jefferson
County. The housing crisis is impacting workforce housing in a manner difficult to address in the
public sphere,and we are encouraged by the community land trust model, and their specific project on
Dundee Hill. With most public funds directed to 60% and below of AMI, it is doubly critical to find
ways to support workforce housing. The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners believe that
Olympic Housing Trust would be a strong candidate for future funding from the county as a local non-
profit housing provider.
This letter is to support Olympic Housing Trust's development of that project as they focus on
workforce housing in Jefferson County. We wish them success and hope to see them able to develop
these five units of permanently affordable workforce housing. Our social fabric depends on the
preservation and development of housing on all rungs of the housing continuum and supporting
community land trusts is an important element in that housing course correction.
Sincerely,
Jefferson County Commissioners
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Pteean Heidi Eisenhour
District 1 District 2
Greg Brotherton, Chair
District 3
Phone (360) 385-9100 Fax (360) 385-9382 jeffbocc@co.jefferson.wa.us