John Pantelides: Affordable housing can happen now

John Pantelides: Affordable housing can happen now

We all know we have a crisis in affordable housing with the average Anne Arundel County January 2025 residence’s sold price of $607,294, which is a 50% increase from the 2019 price of $405,420. In addition, Mark Kleinschmidt of the Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce stated in The Capital Gazette in January that the lack of affordable housing is a major reason for staffing shortages. We all hear that employers can’t find people to work. We know tha…