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Council adds November reporting deadline and annual hearing to university accountability ordinance
Summary
Councilors approved two narrow amendments to the University Accountability Ordinance: moving the student-housing reporting deadline from Oct. 1 to Nov. 1 and requiring an annual city council hearing on the student housing trends report to increase oversight and improve data accuracy.
The Boston City Council voted Oct. 1 to amend the City’s University Accountability Ordinance to shift the student housing reporting deadline to Nov. 1 and to require an annual council hearing on the city’s student housing trends report.
Councilor Durkin, who sponsored the amendments, said the law — originally adopted in 2004 — requires universities to report enrollment and housing data that the city uses to prepare an annual student housing trends report. Durkin told colleagues the Oct. 1…
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