Room For Us? Confronting Nantucket’s Housing Crisis

Where do you go when the average home price is $4.5 Million, the cheapest freestanding house costs $1.8 Million, and you’re 30 miles out to sea? Despite significant investments in affordable housing and the efforts of a committed group of housing advocates, the unique pressures of living on a vacation island that caters to billionaires and millionaires has many locals asking: “Does Nantucket have room for us?”