Category: Zoning/Housing

September 2019 NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) may have graduated to BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody) in Centerville. According to the Cape Cod Times the town of Barnstable is trying to put in a pumping station on a third of an acre on Main Street to service a new sewer system for…

July 2019 Our housing supply has not met housing demand for some time now. A study released recently by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found that in 2018 the U.S. built about 260,000 fewer homes than it needed to keep up with population growth and an aging housing stock. According to the Wall…

December, 2017 I’ve heard a diverse group of reasons for the slow growth rate of our GDP and the stagnation of wages. Many Democrats want to increase GDP growth by raising the minimum wage and investing heavily in infrastructure, while most Republicans have been arguing that we need to reduce tax rates (again) and severely…

February 2016 As most of us are aware, finding housing at a reasonable cost is a problem – not just on Cape Cod, but all over the country. And it’s getting worse every year. “Federal guidelines say families paying more than 30 percent of income may have difficulty paying for food, clothing and other necessities,”…

June 2016 In a recent editorial, the Cape Cod Times pointed out that within ten years the percentage of people over 65 on Cape Cod will grow from 24% to 35%. More than one in three Cape Cod residents will be seniors! The Times was concerned that efforts to better serve this population with regional…