A new Petersburg police officer has been living in the firehouse while his family waits in Utah — but he has no solid leads on a house. His struggle exemplifies the community's housing crunch, where there are just two homes for sale and few if any rentals
“That’s where I think a lot of our rentals have either disappeared into,” she said, “that, or as people have developed rentals, they become Airbnbs.”
“If today, you had to pick up and leave, where would you go?” said Annette Bennett. They’re the director of WAVE, a nonprofit organization that offers assistance to people in Petersburg who are impacted by violence. “There just isn’t an option. And so that puts people choosing to stay in an unhealthy or unsafe space, because they’d rather do that than be homeless. And there’s also some people that choose to live in their cars, because they can’t live at home anymore.
“We can bring more workers to town,” Giesbrecht said, “but if they can’t find a place to live, then they can’t move here. So it’s gonna be very difficult to fix the lack of workforce without fixing the housing side of it.”
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