(21 Jun 2024)
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Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts – 3 June 2024
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Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts – 4 June 2024
2. Medium of person walking a dog past a house
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Silber, Island housing planner, Martha’s Vineyard Commission:
“So we’ve had a shift in our income distribution. This speaks to the fact that we’re losing year-round residents. We’re losing our low and moderate income families. We’re losing our middle class because we have no housing.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheryl Taylor, equity and access coordinator, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School:
“It has been a challenge. I mean, we came here because my husband had housing with the hospital. So we were in hospital housing when we first got here. And when that was up, we have been pretty much housing insecure ever since, which means we can manage to have nine months, ten months housing, but don’t have housing during the summer. And, for the requirements of my job, I pretty much pay two to three months worth of rent to come back for the two weeks that I have to be here to be an administrator in the school.”
6. Wide of people meeting in a classroom at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheryl Taylor, equity and access coordinator, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School:
“I have spent a significant amount of time couch surfing. With my suitcase in my car, and moving one or two nights here and there with friends on the island.”
8. Wide of people leaving on bikes from Martha’s Vineyard Bike Rentals
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Merrill, owner, Martha’s Vineyard bike rental:
“We definitely get people looking for, say, jobs that come with housing. Or even just housing. We’ve had people come by and ask if they ‘You know of any apartments, or any rooms? Or anything like that?’”
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11. Medium of people walking down the sidewalk in Edgartown
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Merrill, owner, Martha’s Vineyard bike rental:
“It’s definitely a point of contention here in the towns, and town hall meetings and stuff, that Airbnb is taking over a lot of the rental aspect of people’s houses. And, again, making it hard for seasonal workers to come in and stay.”
13. Medium of Abelardo Neto painting a fence
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Abelardo Neto, painting laborer:
“And I come from Brazil. And it’s a lot hard to find some house on the island. It’s very expensive.”
15. Tight of Abelardo Neto painting a fence
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Abelardo Neto, painting laborer:
“My house we live in, seven people. And we pay 850 dollars a month.”
17. Medium of fisherman chopping up bait on boat
18. Tight of fisherman chopping up bait on boat
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Ed Augustus, Massachusetts State Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities:
“Yeah, we’ve heard examples of folks who are coming in on the ferry every single day, sometimes from Falmouth, sometimes from further locations on the Cape, sometimes from off cape. Literally driving over the bridges, getting onto a ferry, and then coming to the island to work.”
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Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts – 3 June 2024
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21. Medium from inside ferry looking at water
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Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts – 4 June 2024
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Ed Augustus, Massachusetts State Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities:
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STORYLINE:
Her story reflects the plight of many on the Massachusetts resort island.
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