In an article publish in this week’s TAB, Newton City Councilor Jake Auchincloss called Newton Mayor Setti Warren’s housing strategy “a vision without a mandate.”

Jake Auchincloss | Newton MA News and Politics Blog“This is in the most intense political debate in Newton. This is a very potent set of recommendations. This is a strongly pro-development synthesis of ideas. We need to put this before the voters in 2017. This needs to be debated, as part of the mayoral and City Council elections, and there needs to be a mandate to execute on this.”

Do you agree that Mayor Warren has no mandate to put forward a housing plan? Is a mandate even relevant?