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Nantucket panel debates housing solutions: Land Bank role, transfer fees and repurposing existing stock
Summary
Panelists and audience members discussed affordable housing for Nantucket’s year‑round residents, Land Bank collaboration, the transfer fee proposal, and practical steps such as repurposing existing buildings and creating low‑barrier entry points for local entrepreneurs.
Speakers at a public forum in Nantucket discussed the town’s shortage of housing that is affordable to year‑round workers and seniors, and they debated policy tools — from Land Bank collaboration and transfer fees to repurposing existing inventory and incremental, low‑cost projects.
Beth Anne Meehan, a loan officer and commissioner at the Nantucket Housing Authority, said maintaining a year‑round community is her priority. "My dream is to maintain our year round community in any way possible," she said, calling for courage to identify where to site affordable housing. Rachel Freeman, executive director of the Nantucket Land Bank, described the Land Bank as created by the state legislature and publicly supported in 1984, and said the…
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