Encourage carefully planned affordable housing in Wilton
Stephen Hudspeth
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Being proactive on well-conceived affordable housing proposals helps to take pressure from Hartford off Wilton for other ways to get to that result.
That can sound cynical, and there has been a charge recently leveled against our locally-elected state officials of cynicism in their alleged voting “no” on state initiatives to move us in various directions while knowing full well that the opposite result will come about given the composition of our state legislature.
The reality is, however, that the kind of pro-active thinking happening now on affordable housing in Wilton serves broad and good societal purposes even as it gives our elected officials evidence of forward progress to present in Hartford in opposition to, or major modification of, proposed legislative remedies. Moreover, it offers creative real-world solutions to