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Jericho committee to post housing brief showing most 2025 homes sold well above middle‑income prices
Summary
The Affordable Housing Committee reviewed a "Housing Brief" pairing 2025 certificates of occupancy with permits and agreed to publish highlights while redacting sensitive parcel and permit identifiers; the data show most new homes sold between about $700,000 and over $1 million and few middle‑income units.
The Town of Jericho Affordable Housing Committee reviewed and approved posting highlights from a draft "Housing Brief" that pairs 2025 certificates of occupancy with building permits, finding that most housing completed in 2025 was priced well above middle‑income levels.
Chuck Lacy, an AHC member, presented the committee's data spreadsheet and said the majority of new homes sold in 2025 were between about $700,000 and over $1 million, with an average sales price around $600,000 and little middle‑income inventory. The committee discussed which data fields to omit for privacy and agreed to exclude house numbers, parcel numbers, permit numbers and wastewater permit numbers before posting.
The group debated where to publish the brief's highlights. Friederike Keating, AHC co‑chair, suggested the town webpage; Chuck Lacy recommended notifying the Planning Commission and Selectboard; SJ Dube, AHC co‑chair, proposed using Front Porch Forum to summarize the findings on behalf of the committee. Chuck said he will email a final version to Sabina with SJ copied to post to the town website, and Friederike agreed to post highlights with a link to the full brief.
Committee members also discussed whether to present an averaged figure combining actual sale prices and estimated costs; no final numeric change to the draft brief was recorded during the meeting. Chuck volunteered to help reformat a fuller Housing Report to accelerate publication and the committee planned further work on a more comprehensive report.
The meeting closed without public comment and with the committee agreeing on redaction and publication steps for the housing brief.
