About Grace Landing

When a community lacks affordable housing for its workforce, workers—such as restaurant staff, teachers, healthcare providers, service staff, and first responders—are forced to commute long distances or leave the area altogether. This leads to staffing shortages, resulting in struggling local businesses, weakened public services, and increased traffic with associated environmental impacts. 

Over time, a prosperous community becomes fragile and begins to languish as it loses economic diversity, resilience, and the people who keep it functioning day-to-day. 

Whether we are full-time residents or part-time residents on Whidbey Island, we share responsibility for caring for our community. Meaningful change does not happen without us—and it cannot happen without a strong, local workforce. 

Lower-income housing shortages are solved through a combination of smart development, creative use of land, and strong community partnerships. Building smaller, more attainable homes; using donated or underutilized land; streamlining regulations; and expanding workforce housing all reduce costs and increase supply. Nonprofit, public, and private collaborations—along with shared-equity and resale-restricted homeownership models—help preserve long-term affordability. 

When communities invest in housing that serves essential workers and local residents, they strengthen the economy, maintain vital services, and ensure long-term stability for everyone.

Lower-income housing shortages are solved when communities commit to building smarter, partnering locally, and investing for the long term. Attainable housing is not just about shelter—it is about sustaining the people who make a community work.

Affordable Cottages. Lasting Community.

Our six-home cottage community offers 600-square-foot homes designed for comfortable, efficient living, and affordable homeownership. 

These thoughtfully planned homes provide a realistic pathway to ownership for working individuals and families while fostering a close-knit, supportive neighborhood.

Lower costs, smarter design, financial stability, and a strong sense of community make Grace Landing cottages a lasting affordable housing solution—not a temporary fix.

100% of donations to WILL go directly to the development of Grace Landing.