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Candidates split on how to add housing: municipal trust, controlled redevelopment or limits on density
Summary
Peabody candidates offered differing blueprints for increasing moderately priced housing while preserving neighborhood character, including a municipal housing trust, downtown micro‑units and directing development to Centennial Park.
Peabody candidates at the forum offered competing visions for adding moderately priced housing without disrupting neighborhoods, with proposals including a municipal housing trust, targeted downtown and Centennial Park housing, and stronger controls on density and infrastructure impacts.
Why it matters: decisions about where and what type of housing to add determine school and municipal service demand, traffic, environmental impacts and the city’s tax base.
Tristan Brown proposed creating a municipal housing trust and a locally controlled development district — modeled on historical Peabody trusts elsewhere…
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