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Breakline: The Other Coastal Crisis

Coastal Contractor

Fall 2005
The Other Coastal Crisis - Thunderclouds Over Paradise

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Breakline: The Other Coastal Crisis Severe lack of housing collides with an ongoing labor shortage It used to be a rallying cry for antipoverty groups. But the lack of affordable housing in coastal communities has become so pronounced that it's drawing a group of advocates from the other side of the tracks: economic developers. From the New Jersey shore to southeastern North Carolina to Florida's Gulf Coast, business leaders say "workforce housing" now ranks among their top concerns. "We're not in a bad scenario, or a tight situation; we're in a crisis situation now," says Rick Marcum, executive director of

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