Homeownership Now Under Assault in Massachusetts
If this designation is accepted at Town Meeting, Wareham can require year-round housing occupancy restrictions, in effect outlawing seasonal rentals.
I am exhausted from being a resident of the Commonwealth.
No matter where you live in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, your freedoms are under attack.
They just took away our Second Amendment rights. Now our homes are under siege.
On Oct. 28, the municipality of Wareham is holding a town meeting to discuss whether to become a “seasonal community.” It sounds harmless, but it is not. It is an assault on homeowners and their rights.
A “seasonal community” designation is given out by the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities. This is the same agency overseeing the free housing of the thousands of illegal aliens who’ve come to Massachusetts to go on welfare.
This arrogant agency refuses all public record requests filed by Sen. Peter Durant and Taunton City Councilor Kelly Dooner.
While Gov. Maura Healey claims there have been background checks on all the illegals in the new flophouses that are costing taxpayers more a billion dollars a year, this agency doesn’t have any data to share.
According to Wareham Week, the “seasonal community” classification allows Wareham to “protect their year-round citizens by creating restrictions regarding seasonal rental properties.”
Protect them? What about protections for the property owners, and their rights?
Some in Wareham want to “protect” certain residents from the summer people who pay year-round property taxes and don’t get year-round town service. Why do they need “protection” from people who are paying taxes and not using services?
The summer people’s property taxes help pay for the year-rounders’ police and fire departments, not to mention schools.
If it wasn’t for summer people, the community would have to cut their budget in half, or double their taxes.
If this designation is accepted at Town Meeting, Wareham can require year-round housing occupancy restrictions, in effect outlawing seasonal rentals. So the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities and the town of Wareham will be able to tell homeowners what they can and cannot do with their own property.
As long as they’re impinging on people’s rights, are they going to pay the victims’ mortgages too? Are they going to tell them who can stay in their homes as well?
Will seasonal homeowners next be forced to rent to illegals year-round? After they finish confiscating all the newly-outlawed firearms in the state, will the Democrats send the police door to door in Wareham to see who is “seasonal?”
What happens to all the businesses that are dependent on these seasonal people once they’ve been designated as second-class citizens?
I thought communities wanted tourism. Tourists bring revenue to the town, and unlike the illegals, the taxpaying law-abiding citizen tourists don’t rely on welfare for their cradle-to-grave lives of leisure.
The taxpayers eventually return to their jobs, to their gainful employment, to a life of responsibility. The illegals, not so much….
How much do you want to bet that the parking permits seasonal people pay to park in front of their homes will disappear once they are forced to rent to year-round people?
Of course, the town doesn’t want any input from the summer residents. No, just their property taxes, and whatever other fees they’re being assessed.
That’s why the town scheduled this discussion for Oct. 28, a Monday, after everyone else has left.
So in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts there is no vetting of the illegals living in hotels on our dime, but they now want to monitor who is renting homes from legal residents.
What happened to our liberties?
