ABOUT TRURO365
Truro365 is a citizen action group dedicated to affordable housing. We are committed to building a community where everyone has access to safe and affordable housing. Our mission is to advocate for sustainable housing solutions, support individuals and families in need, and work towards a future where housing is a right, not a privilege.
Truro365 is a part of Project 365, a region-wide movement supported by the Community Development Partnership, that builds stronger year-round communities through participation in local decision-making.
We take action to support affordable housing and other initiatives that improve the quality of life for year-round and part-time residents of Truro.
We are currently focused on supporting the Walsh Property, which will bring 160 units of much needed affordable housing to Truro.
Our activities include attending public meetings, submitting letters, writing editorials and other forms of citizen action. To support this, we have created a storehouse of news and other resources about the affordable housing crisis.
Truro365 collaborates with various organizations, volunteers, and community leaders who share our vision of affordable housing for all. Together, we work towards creating a supportive network, providing resources, and advocating for sustainable solutions to address housing challenges.
If you support a vibrant year-round community, stable businesses, improved services, housing for our seniors and a wider tax base, please sign up to receive our newsletter, including action alerts.
Truro365 Steering Committee
Cass Johnson
Betty Gallo
Mara Glatzel
Jane Lea
Denise McWilliams
Isadora Medley
Sarine Rodman
Lee Swislow
Voices
Seth Ohrn, the former manager at Spindler’s restaurant was shocked to discover that J-1 students in Provincetown were “living in nothing short of squalor.
These kids should not be sleeping on mattresses on the floor, with broken windows and no screens.
These kids are working three jobs per person, 5 a.m. to midnight. They should have somewhere to go that’s not a mattress on the floor.”
Seth Ohrn, manager at Spindlers Restaurant.
“One of my patients who was working three jobs here had to leave when her place was sold and the new owners wanted to Airbnb it out.”
“She said something I will never forget: ‘I don’t know what will happen to me.’"
Heather Duncan, a physician’s assistant at Outer Cape Health Services:
"It's hard for us to look away from the housing calamity because it threatens our own business.
We pay decent salaries compared to other small newspapers, but local journalism is not a high-pay profession, and the prospects for being able to make a life here, where house prices are unreachable and rentals are disappearing, are frankly depressing.
Like teachers, nurses, hotel clerks, and mail carriers, newspaper people help create community, and community helps create a newspaper, too. We can’t do it if this isn’t a place where we can live."
Edwin Miller, Editor, the Provincetown Independent (3)
"(I) realized the Outer Cape was not a place where a home health worker could live or raise a family.”
Baxandall said the long commute for home health-care workers to reach Truro was “an enormous problem. It really felt like not the way I would want this community to be."
Phineas Baxandall
Co-chair, Truro Part-Time Resident Advisory Committee (4)
Citations
(1) & (2) Provincetown Aims Higher on Local Housing Policy, Provincetown Independent. 12/21/2022
(3) Housing Rears It's Head, Provincetown Independent. 2/7/2024
(4) Truro Part-timers Worry about Housing and Health, Provincetown Independent. 8/28/2024