Affordable Housing and Anna Eskamani
Back at it with @annaforflorida - This time talking affordable housing.
Yesterday in class we had an ahhhmazing workshop with @msbrandymorgan on how to leverage social media for your career. Brandy dropped a lot of timely wisdom on our group and thoughtfully fielded all the questions we threw at her. One point she consistently made was to keep it professional! Online spaces are the perfect breeding ground for rants, unsolicited advice, and uninformed opinions. Rather than feed the trolls, Brandy recommended avoiding such conversations online, but to continue them IRL, where tone and intent can be more easily inferred.
That’s advice I can get behind, but from there, the question arose about how to stay “authentic” online if you’re not contributing to conversations on the things matter to you. Politics and religion are the easiest examples to point to. Our in-class discussion opened up to ideas on how to stay in the sweet spot of keeping it professional AND keeping it real. One of the ways I try to do this is by talking less and doing more. That is the story I am hoping to share here - one of action, one of engagement.
And so back to the town hall meeting on affordable housing. Did you know that the Orlando area ranks FIRST among the largest 50 metropolitan areas for the most severe affordable housing shortage in the country, beating out cities like LA? Say what? You mean to tell me we have to deal with the same problems as major cities in California without the weather?
As a woman who will earn significantly less than my male counterparts for the same work, as a member of the LGBTQ community where my household will feel that deficit twice, and as someone working in a helping profession where it’s often necessary to have a side hustle to make ends meet… this issue affects me. It also affects my family who just moved to the area from California in search of a better life.
