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State officials say Affordable Homes Act underway but far short of 222,000‑unit goal
Summary
The secretary of the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities told the Joint Committee on Housing the Administration has begun distributing capital from the Affordable Homes Act and implementing policy changes such as ADUs by right and a Fair Housing Office, but the state still needs hundreds of thousands of homes to meet demand.
The Joint Committee on Housing heard Thursday that implementation of the Affordable Homes Act is underway but will not by itself reach the state’s housing-production target.
“ If there is any takeaway from the housing plan, it is that the state needs 222,000 new units over the next 10 years,” said the Secretary of the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, summarizing the administration’s 10‑year production goal and the executive office’s planning work.
That 222,000 figure comes from the administration’s first comprehensive housing plan, which the secretary told the committee identifies an undersupply problem that includes a statewide vacancy rate of 1.6 percent and a projection that Massachusetts needs at least 73,000 new units over the next decade to absorb households formed by younger generations. The secretary testified the administration estimated…
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