On Tuesday night the Chilmark select board unanimously endorsed draft legislation for the creation of a Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank and agreed to place the legislation on the Chilmark annual town meeting warrant. Housing bank coalition coordinator Laura Silber came before the board to pitch the legislation and breakdown its major components. Silber was joined […]
The Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank is holding its second public forum on Nov. 6 from 9 am to 10:30 am, to introduce its draft warrant article. The work-in-progress warrant article can be reviewed on the coalition’s website at ccmvhb.org. Since its inception, the coalition’s goal has been to put an article […]
The state legislature’s joint committee on housing heard support on two pieces of transfer fee legislation from the Coalition to Create a Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank and others Tuesday, during a hearing held by the joint committee on housing. Two transfer fee bills had hearings Tuesday, S.868 and H.1377. They are the Senate and House […]
To the Editor: The following letter was originally sent to members of the Massachusetts House and Senate. I write to you today to ask for action to address the severity of Martha’s Vineyard’s housing crisis, its negative impact on our economy and infrastructure, and the need for significant, reliable long-term funding Island-wide to implement housing […]
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