Lines Drawn in the Sand Over Low-Income Housing on Nantucket

Bojan Bokic/Getty ImagesNantucket is sleepy in the winter. Billionaires like Google CEO Eric Schmidt and banking titan Charles Schwab have not decamped to their multimillion-dollar vacation homes. Weekenders aren’t wandering the picturesque lanes. Hollywood A-listers are not in town for the annual film festival.But behind the scenes, things are anything but boring. A protracted fight over a housing development with units for low-income residents has entered a bitter new stage, with a slew of court challenges and allegations that the local government is too cozy with the developers.The town’s Select Board is begging the developers and their local critics to play nice, pushing them to engage in mediation to find an “acceptable, economically advantageous” solution to the nearly six-year-long dispute around the 13-acre settlement.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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