The Daily Dirt: What’s wrong with the office conversion tax break?

Passing the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act should have been easy. Who would stand in the way of churches building on their own land? But the state bill ran into resistance from the not-in-my-backyard crowd, according to an op-ed by the legislation’s sponsor, Sen. Andrew Gounardes. “Efforts at preserving an undefined ‘neighborhood character’ usually lack formal criteria and function to advance exclusionary community preferences and even racial bias,” he wrote.