Navigator Homes breaks ground on elderly housing

Senator Ed Markey retold his history with the project. ‘In 2022 I was approached by Martha’s Vineyard — could I help, with the Department of Agriculture, to fund a new set of facilities, not only for skilled nursing, but also for the workers on the Island, so that they would have a place to live?’ Markey said.

Navigator Homes was loaned $53 million in USDA funds in January through the department’s Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant program.

Markey thanked Scott Soares, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Rural Development state regional director.

‘If people are looking at Martha’s Vineyard from Washington, D.C., they don’t see what Scott sees,” Markey said. “Scott sees for eight months a year a rural community. A community that is not rich. A community that is rural and needs assistance in order to deal with the problems that affect families on a daily basis all year round — not just June, July, and August of every single year.’

Courtesy of the MV Times