League of Women Voters' forum tackles Skagit housing shortage

The challenges of balancing preservation of farmland, forest areas and wetlands with development of affordable workforce housing in Skagit Valley are many and abundantly clear.

Solutions, though, are less apparent and more elusive – but sorely needed, and now.

The Skagit County League of Women Voters brought attention to the issue, organizing a 90-minute public forum in Sedro-Woolley Aug. 21, emphasizing the challenge that has priced working families out of the valley and shrunk the labor pool. Some 100 people attended and more watched on YouTube.

“We focus on solutions,” moderator Elizabeth J...