vineyard wind Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,
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For Sale? Not much, with Cape workforce ‘desperate for housing’
A push to overhaul zoning & keep year-round residents dominates summit
Patrick Flanary
YARMOUTH Cape Cod is running out of places to live: only 394 houses are for sale.
Twenty-eight of those are in Yarmouth, where just a year ago available homes outnumbered those in every other town except Barnstable. Listings are now scarcer than ever, and more are being snatched up as seasonal properties, often in cash and above the asking price.
The year-round workforce already struggled to compete with second-home buyers, but the pandemic has rapidly diminished the stock of single-family homes, down 75% in April from the same period last year, according to the Cape Cod and Islands Association of Realtors.
Today’s offshore wind project announcement demonstrates that we can fight the climate crisis, while creating high-paying jobs and strengthening our competitiveness at home and abroad,” said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in a statement. “This project is an example of the investments we need to achieve the Biden-Harris administration’s ambitious climate goals, and I’m proud to be part of the team leading the charge on offshore wind.”
Since 2017, the Vineyard Wind project has been subject to a federal review process that generated more than 30,000 public comments, more than 90% of which supported the project, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior.