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Avlashyee Affordable Housing Committee <br /> _........ ._......_._........._......._ _____. ....._____.� ____ ......_......._ �n_ ......w__w............_ ._ <br /> 1._............___ <br /> 6 Great Neck RoadWorth <br /> Nashpee, NA 02649 <br /> they make it worse. Not to say there isn't a place for them, but there needs to be a balance. <br /> Different income groups and skills allow for businesses to have economic vitality. <br /> Ms. Pina added that Cape Cod has enough second homes. At this point there is nowhere for the <br /> laborers to live who service the people that live here. She has two young children and she is not <br /> sure they will able to live on the Cape when they are older. <br /> Mr. Lehrer noted some other challenges families face while raising a family here. Childcare <br /> challenges and access to affordable childcare is uniquely coupled with housing. Childcare is a <br /> college tuition payment. The three major costs a family faces is housing, childcare, and automobile. <br /> What if there was a world where you didn't need your car? <br /> Ms. Pina attended a presentation at the Chamber for reasons why people aren't reentering the <br /> labor market. COVID affected women more than men and is the number one reason because one <br /> spouse was working and the lack of childcare. That is something the state can make investments in <br /> right away to help provide the labor market with more laborers. <br /> Mr. Isbitz is speculating, but it seems the pandemic disrupted existing childcare but also diminished <br /> 25% of the childcare, on average. Getting back to the need for childcare, but now childcare is in <br /> short supply with the need becoming higher. It has become a public funding burden even more than <br /> it had been. He went on to discuss the missing middle. Chairman never understood the missing <br /> middle definition. How does it meet our needs? There are many forms of housing that people feel <br /> may constitute missing middle, to him it is multifamily housing, which would be missing end. Single <br /> family and multifamily housing is one end of the spectrum. There are legitimate needs that require <br /> some sort of zoning reform and address multifamily housing in town, but also regionally. <br /> Mr. Lehrer clarified the missing middle refers to a building typology. It's everything in between <br /> housing to apartments. The Chairman made a good point. In Mashpee, there is not a missing <br /> middle but a missing top end. The two main housing types are detached single family homes and <br /> homeownership condos, that is all. <br /> Mr. Isbitz stated it is not a physical term, but a human term. What we need to do to improve the <br /> lives of residents and that does not contribute to the understanding of the problems we are facing. <br /> Mr. Lehrer explained that term is given to explain housing typologies we have and those we don't <br /> have, that the community is interesting in redeveloping sites to accommodate. Missing middle is a <br /> broad term that covers a broad group of building types. <br /> Mr. Isbitz is looking for multifamily housing and the various housing types that represent multifamily <br /> housing. <br /> Mr. Lehrer commented that not all missing middle is multifamily. <br /> Chairman Isbitz explained that the mixture of facts and figures blurs the line of official programs like <br /> 40B and programs funding affordable housing. When you talk about the Town of Mashpee having a <br /> 7 <br />