The effort to repeal affordable housing law fails
According to Banker & Tradesman, the effort to repeal the state’s chief affordable housing law has failed.
The repeal would have erased four sections of the state’s “Chapter 40B” regulations.
Chapter 40B requires cities and towns to allow developers to build housing with more density than would otherwise be allowed if their “affordable housing” is less than 10% of the entire housing stock. The developers are required to offer some of the housing at “affordable” prices, in return.
The petitioners had to collect at least 66,593 (valid) signatures in order for the question to appear on next year’s ballot; the word is they collected as few as 34,000.
The question is, does this say more about the petitioners or more about the sentiments of the majority of Commonwealth voters?
Other petitions are in the works, meantime.
Updated June 1, 2020
You will never regret offering dignity to others.
We rarely get into trouble because we overdo our sense of justice and fairness. Not just us, but where we work, the others we influence. Organizations and governments are nothing but people, and every day we get a chance to become better versions of ourselves.
And yet… in the moments when we think no one is looking, when the stakes are high, we often forget. It’s worth remembering that justice and dignity aren’t only offered on behalf of others.
Offering people the chance to be treated the way we’d like to be treated benefits us too. It goes around.
