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Too Much to Qualify, Too Little to Buy: The Workers Being Priced Out of East Hampton

By Kathryn Mahoney Posted on

Ten people. That is how many of the 2,361 essential workers surveyed by Whalebone Workforce Housing across East Hampton’s school systems, town government, and Southampton Hospital can afford to buy a home in East Hampton on their own salary. That is one percent.

Kirby Marcantonio, founder of Whalebone Workforce Housing, has spent four years trying to understand exactly who those people are, and what it would take to keep them here.

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Too Much to Qualify, Too Little to Buy: The Workers Being Priced Out of East Hampton

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