City Council support for legislation that would allow for the adoption of fees on the transfer of real estate for use in creating new funding for affordable housing trusts, including H.2457, H.2552, and the consensus bill

How it started

Mar 2, 2020 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui and Councillors Carlone, McGovern, and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Mar 2, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted as amended

Present and voting at this meeting (9)

Alanna Mallon
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 2, 2020

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2020-03-02). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.