When Governor Maura Healey asked a group of Nantucket’s elected officials and other stakeholders on Tuesday what they needed to solve the island’s housing crisis, the answer was nearly unanimous: the housing bank transfer fee on real estate transactions.
Gov. Healey paid a visit to Nantucket on Tuesday to talk about two of her most important issues: affordable housing and food insecurity. She found on the island a supportive audience that wanted to share Nantucket’s success stories in both arenas, but also the immense challenges that remain.
In her two-hour visit to the island, Gov. Healey toured the new Wiggles Way workforce apartments on Fairgrounds Road and addressed a group of town officials and stakeholders about the housing crisis on Nantucket and statewide. From there, Healey visited Sustainable Nantucket’s farm stand and fields off Hummock Pond Road, where she met with island farmers and others leading the island’s efforts to tackle food insecurity.
Healey congratulated island officials on the recently completed Wiggles Way development, and emphasized her support of the transfer fee legislation for affordable housing that Nantucket has championed for more than a decade, but has fallen short at the state level time and time again…