Here’s Why It Takes So Long and Costs So Much to Build Affordable Housing for Working Families

Developing affordable housing is more expensive and takes longer to build than market-rate homes. But why?  Here are the major challenges Our Town St. Helena (OTSH) faces as we develop our Pope Street Workforce Housing project (10 units) and the Fountain Street project (approximately 40 units). Complex Financing When the Read more…

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Meet the OTSH Team: Marisol Vargas

Marisol was on Cuba’s national swim team. (pay attention: this is important). They never let her attend the international swim meets outside of Cuba because they were afraid she would defect due to her family and friends in the US. Nevertheless, Marisol made friends with her competitors from several countries when they came to the island, and those relationships would provide critical in her long journey to find a better life that didn’t include living under a dictator.