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Boston to Require Fair Housing Review for New Developments The Boston Zoning Code is one of the first in the nation to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. February 23, 2021, 6am PST | James Brasuell | Back in December, Boston took steps to become the first large city in the nation to include Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) requirements in its zoning code. The news broke about the city's historic action after a vote by the City Council and an announcement of support by Mayor Martin J. Walsh. According to the press release from Mayor Walsh's office, the new zoning amendment...

Coming into a really big population area that is going to be completely cut off. it's a serious thing. sorry to be mean to your beachology. pete: you know construction well. you see those images as well. how confident are you that zoning codes have created environment where buildings can we stand that. rick: buildings have gotten better. because of hurricane andrew they changed. this a lot of buildings are built to withstand cat 3 storms. this is going to be a stronger storm than that a lot of buildings will be able to handle it a lot of houses that can handle it will have a lot of roof damage...

>> the reality with disasters like this is you save the lives before the disaster with the policy, the building codes, the zoning codes, and then the early warning. if you get some of those wrong, people will die, and there's not much you can do about it in the event. >> where people get angered, it's like ray nagen down in new orleans. i'll get 90% of the people out. 90 isn't winning. 50,000 people were left behind. i'm always struck by that picture of all those school buses. hundreds of school buses sitting down there in new orleans not even turned on and under water because nobody moved. >>...

>> one final subject, you referenced housing. the zoning laws of the country are not prepared for this trend. explain. >> exactly. so in the 1950s that very extraordinary time, we passed a lot of laws to try and build a lot of housing very quickly. for the young people who were coming home from the war. the problem is, that we built everything around this idea of one massive cohort of young people coming in, getting married and settling down. and so what we did is lose the ability to build more flexible forms, such as an accessory dwelling unit. the granny flat, the mother-in-law unit and we h...

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