Gov. Charlie Baker’s Housing Choice legislation offers an antidote to the region’s vexing affordability and congestion problems by making new homes easier to build, particularly on prime land near existing transit stations. Under the governor’s bill, zoning changes and permitting decisions needed to make way for desirable projects would require a simple majority vote rather than the supermajority of town meeting, select board, or council that most approvals currently call for. With support…
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