There's far greater demand now in Kent County for housing than there is current supply and that has driven the price up.

Our free enterprise system can create affordable housing. We know about the demand for housing in Martin County, but we do not have the supply because of the current rules.

We don't have a worker shortage, we have a housing shortage. Our rooms are our product, and we can't tie up our product.

There is a large psychological element behind current housing prices,

That's our biggest challenge out here because, as you know, they are taking down the affordable housing complexes and they certainly aren't building any new ones.

Many of the residents of adult housing sold their houses that they've lived in for so many years because they find it exhausting and expensive to maintain a large and empty household.