Regarding the cost of housing burden on farmers, I recall a few years back, Gov. Gary Locke imposed first-world housing requirements for migrant labor housing (“Ease path to hire farmworkers for state agriculture,” The Herald, May 4).
While it was a noble gesture, it made housing migrants unaffordable for some farmers.
I’m not suggesting that the laborers should live in squalor, but I’d hazard a guess that their own situations back home are probably not up to U.S. standards.
I am suggesting that the housing requirements might be reassessed to alleviate the shortage situation.
Once again it’s another case of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
Mark D Ryan
Kingston
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