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After this Summer of Joy found Megan McKenna winning the local primary and Kamala Harris taking over for Joe Biden, it is not surprising that Affordable Housing has taken center stage on our national and local tickets.  It’s the economy people, and nothing affects our personal economy as much as housing, in America and Summit County.  Ever since housing became a commodity to buy and sell and flip and split has the price of owning a home become so relatively expensive, especially here.   

It is no wonder that Megan has embraced this battle as her avocation, advocation and occupation.  She is working with the Housing Advocate at Mountainlands Housing Trust after spending a decade teaching Science in the high school and another decade throwing bombs and running sleds for the ski patrol at The Canyons.  She knows how valuable a home is after growing up here in the middle class and struggling to buy her own home in her own hometown.  Even with an advanced education and highly honed skills like Megan’s, this is something many of our families are struggling with, bridging the precarious gap between earning a living wage and flirting with homelessness.  As our wealthy country tries to save the middle class and their respective housing options, Megan knows first-hand about this strain in a wealthy county with a vibrant and diverse work force.  Our housing crisis affects employment and wages, traffic and growth, climate and environment, education and economics, affordability and sustainability.  Home is the epicenter of our relations and religions, our love and libido, our reproductive choices and our American voices.  Everything starts with a home: families, culture, career and life.

This election is a new opportunity to reboot our leadership with young but experienced, active and involved, wise women.  We need down home, salt of the earth, empathetic representatives to advocate for what is important now, and in the future, for this country and this county.  Consider Kamala and Megan in November as leaders who know the price of progress, the cost of community and the worth of home.