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Assembly committee recommends resolution declaring a housing crisis and convening county working group; committee adds support for regional housing office
Summary
The Assembly standing committee on economic affairs voted 5-0 to recommend Resolution 2025-06 to the full assembly, declaring there to be a housing crisis on Cape Cod and requesting the county administrator convene a multi-stakeholder housing working group; the committee also added language supporting an intermunicipal agreement to continue the shared regional housing office.
The Cape Cod Regional Government Assembly standing committee on economic affairs unanimously recommended to the full assembly a resolution declaring a housing crisis on Cape Cod and requesting the county administrator convene a cross-sector housing working group.
Deputy Speaker Delegate Gessen introduced proposed Resolution 2025-06 on April 14. The resolution cites a 62% increase in median single-family home price on Cape Cod (from $449,000 in 2019 to $730,000 in 2023, as stated in the text read into the record) and asserts that a working family must earn 245% of area median income to afford the median home, then declares "there to be a housing crisis…
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