The Airbnb Housing Council will advise the home-sharing company on policies and initiatives it can support to combat housing affordability and inventory issues.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced plans to overhaul the city’s enormously complex zoning code for the first time in nearly 60 years, guided by a report that described the current 3,791-page code as bloated, outdated, inconsistent and inequitable.
Written by Linda Lavelle
by Maria Weingarten, CT169Strong.org
This Connecticut legislative session has been turned on its head. Zoning bills have been voted favorably out of the Planning and Development and Transportation Committees, awaiting a vote in the General Assembly. Any zoning language can still be added or deleted until the session ends in June. Do residents even know what is in the bills? Probably not.
Democratic legislators, like Will Haskell, the Co-Chair of the Transportation Committee which passed HB6570, have not informed their constituents about the contents of these bills or about public hearings. The press has not disclosed bill details, focusing instead on the marketing spin from Democratic leadership and Sarah Bronin’s (DesegregateCT) roadshow, without delving into the problematic provisions and language actually in the bills. Devastating public policy may soon be voted on by the General Assembly.