The law, known as the MBTA Communities Act, requires cities and towns served by transit to zone for more multifamily housing, in a bid by state lawmakers to tackle the region’s deep housing crisis. But it does so by challenging the state’s long, proud history of letting towns control their own zoning. And some residents are very unhappy.“How close does this come to quid pro quo, extortion, or blackmail?” one man asked in that Rockport library. “And when can we send someone to jail?”
Source: Housing: Resistance mounts against state housing law after Milton vote
