The General Assembly foolishly passed a bill, Substitute House Bill 6880, “An Act Concerning the Affordable Housing Land Use Appeals Procedure,” that would modify the state’s affordable housing law to make it much easier for municipalities to achieve affordability thresholds which would allow them to hide behind multiyear moratoria, staving off efforts to bring social equity to the exclusionary housing patterns that plague our state. It is troubling that there was bipartisan support for the legislation and that it passed both the House and the Senate with wide margins, 116-33 and 30-6, respectively.
The governor did the right thing in vetoing the legislation and we urge the General Assembly not to attempt to resurrect the harmful legislation by overriding the governor’s veto.
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