Dear Editor:
On behalf of everyone at the Blue Door Community, our thanks to the County of Wellington and the Advertiser for the chance to share how our home has evolved with the needs of our changing family.
Over the past two weeks, we have had lots of enthusiastic feedback from people we know (and those we don’t!) about our approach to multi-generational living. Housing is an issue that impacts everyone in our community and the intentional changes we have made seem to resonate with many.
It has been pointed out that we are privileged to have done what we have. We fully agree and have recognized that from the start of our housing journey.
We are blessed to have access to the physical space and capital that allowed us to build and adapt our living space the way we have. We fully acknowledge that everyone doesn’t.
And, we hope our story is a call to families, developers and all three levels of government that smart design and intentionality are tools all of us can use to support creative and people-centered housing.
It goes without saying that using prime agricultural land to build homes is neither.
Curt Hammond,
Elora