In addition to the ideas outlined in HAC's workforce housing kit, Cape Cod residents can support workforce housing on the Cape in a variety of ways. It is the shared responsibility of employers, officials, and all other residents to ensure that our workforce can afford to remain on the Cape.

Concerned citizens
Businesses
Municipalities

If you're a concerned citizen:

• Get involved. Attend local meetings with housing and planning officials to support housing proposals in your town that meet criteria established in the development checklist for workforce housing.
• Get organized. Contact your selectmen, town councilors, zoning board and other town officials to voice your support for actively expanding housing choices that are affordable and making changes to local zoning laws
• Be heard. Write letters to your local newspapers supporting housing proposals, emphasizing the real need to get workforce housing built in your community.
• Learn more. Go to www.haconcapecod.org or www.chapa.org to learn more about workforce housing options and issues.
• Participate. Click here to find out where a home@last meeting on workforce housing is taking place in or near your town and get your friends and neighbors to participate.

If you're an employer:

• Invest. Participate in the Cape Cod Employer Assisted Housing Program, a new initiative that makes financial housing assistance available to your employees. The program enables you to offer a direct benefit to your employees, leverage a new recruitment tool, create a more stable workforce, and invest in the future of our community and economy. To participate, contact at HAC at workforcehousing@haconcapecod.org or (508) 771-5400.
• Come together. Be a voice in the community, supporting zoning changes and housing developments that our current and future employees can afford to live in.
• Do what you can. As a small business, you can act as an advocate, participate in low-cost housing programs, and collaborate with other small businesses to bring additional benefits to employees. For more ideas, visit www.haconcapecod.org/home-at-last.

If you’re a town official:

• Give Back. Participate in the Cape Cod Employer Assisted Housing Program so municipal workers — like teachers, paramedics/EMTs, clerks, Department of Public Works employees, and others — can live in housing they can afford.
• Build Smart. Support developments in places where waste-water facilities exist or can be expanded, and where the infrastructure can accommodate the transportation needs of local residents.
• Make Changes. Advocate for sensible adjustments at the local level to zoning laws, like those outlined in the home@last zoning toolkit.