About Us
Welcome to the Jefferson County Housing Solutions Network!
HSN was founded in 2018 by the Jefferson Community Foundation, and serves as a response to the growing workforce housing crisis in Jefferson County, Washington. We work to facilitate connectivity, communication and the co-creation of new strategies to increase the availability of affordable and attainable housing in our region. We work alongside local housing champions – both individuals and institutions – by providing support and capacity building to ensure success.
HSN fundamentally works to grow a network of housing champions using the Community Network Building approach. Much of our work is driven by community members who volunteer their time and energy to identify obstacles to affordable housing and then craft and implement strategies to create new solutions (often in groups). To get a sense of our work, check out our 2020 Accomplishments and 2021 Accomplishments.
We have a mighty team of one full-time staff, two part-time staff and dozens of committed community volunteers. We hope you’ll join their ranks!
Here's What We're About...
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Meet Our Change-Makers
Liz Revord
Network Director
Liz Revord comes to HSN with previous non-profit leadership
experience, a master’s degree focused on environmental and community activism, and a passion for helping others. Affected by our community’s housing crisis, Liz is hoping to share her story and connect with others to find solutions that work not only here in Jefferson County, but can also be implemented beyond our peninsula. She and her husband enjoy their time outdoors hiking, biking, and exploring the beautiful PNW with their rescue pups.
Kelsey Caudebec
Network Weaver
Kelsey grew up in Port Townsend, and is excited to have recently moved back with her husband to settle back down in her favorite town. She just finished her master’s degree in adult, professional, and community education, and was previously a non-profit coordinator and a neighborhood bartender. During her years away from PT, she maintained her connections and her interest in local issues. She is eager to reintegrate with the community and draw from her background to listen, connect, and organize at HSN, to boost folks’ ability to stay, work, and create in our beautiful town.
Eric Jones
Share our Spaces Campaign Strategist
Eric is here to build community; he knows without community the future doesn’t look so bright. He brings an eclectic mix of experiences and perspectives through degrees in visual communications and international studies, work in the non-profit sector at both the staff and board level, growing several small business, teaching English as a foreign language, and succeeding at several years of stay-at-home parenting. He is enjoying pushing the boundaries of low impact, small living with his wife, two daughters and their collection of animals.
Housing Solution Network's Steering Committee
Jane Armstrong
Chair
Jane and her husband moved to Port Ludlow in 2014 and to Port Townsend five years ago. Jane managed a variety of food processing operations for the last 20 years of her career. Having made multiple moves herself, finding home and community have always been important to her. The Housing Solutions Network provides the opportunity to collaborate with others interested in digging in and in finding solutions to these difficult challenges . And in the process, to appreciate even more how special, talented and creative our communities and people are.
Fred Kimball
Member
Educated as a geological engineer and mining engineer, Spent 15 years in mining industry tramping around the west and Alaska, walked Out of a tunnel and moved to Port Townsend to be a “hippy carpenter”. Lived in PT Since 1986, Owned and operated Kimball Woodworks a general contracting business and cabinet shop for 30 years. I have been active with Habitat for Humanity for over 20 years, was a board member, past board president, construction committee, advocacy committee, finance committee. Was member Jefferson County Affordable Housing Task Force and currently active with Housing Solutions Network as HAT member and Support council. Currently trying to be retired.
Member
Working over 25 years in the computer software and business consulting industries, Steve was ready to give back his time to the community. Steve serves on several boards and committees throughout Jefferson County but sees the lack of all kinds of affordable housing to be the largest problem the county is facing; he works diligently with HSN and Bayside Housing to support these greater missions. Steve enjoys spending time with his two dogs, taking them on hikes, and being out and about in East Jefferson County. In the winter months, he and his wife like to get away to Tucson Arizona for a little desert time.
Housing Solutions Network and Jefferson Community Foundation
HSN was initially incubated at JCF as a field-of-interest fund in order to meet a gap in the housing landscape: a space for new community leaders to develop new solutions for affordable workforce housing. It was the founders’ intention to pilot the effort in a measured, low-overhead environment and then, if successful, to build the governance and operating structures needed to become independent from JCF.
In addition, HSN has directed new funding to housing efforts through the Jefferson Community Foundation, provided scholarships for grant writing workshops, offered coaching and Board development for local organizations, and cultivated a wide-reaching communications platform to educate community members about housing challenges and housing solutions in our community.
HSN currently operates as a distinct initiative from JCF, with one full-time staff and two dedicated part-time staff members and a set of programs that are unique from JCF’s core programs and services. JCF still offers HSN support through administrative support and offers strategic feedback and guidance upon request. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any additional questions regarding the nature of our relationship.
