I am very grateful that the PDN Home Fund is shared with OlyCAP and provides critical services to people in Jefferson County who desperately need help. If more of us knew that, maybe more of us would contribute! The people who worked on creating the Prop 1 considered other ways to fund creation of affordable housing. The Document Recording Fees are already working overtime for services to homeless people, and part of that fee will sunset soon unless the legislature takes action. The sales tax is the most regressive tax of all, and, at one tenth of one percent, wouldn't make a big difference. And despite what you read in a Letter here on Sunday, Jefferson County does not have the authority to collect a Real Estate Excise Tax 3 for creating housing. There is a big difference between "providing services" and "creating housing." The Home Opportunity Fund would provide that critical missing piece.