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Supportive-housing advocates push for interagency board, 2,000-unit goal
Summary
Nonprofits, health-care groups and the housing alliance urged the committee to create an interagency supportive housing finance and strategy board to coordinate funding and deliver 2,000 supportive units through an Affordable Homes Act fund and other tools.
Advocates and provider coalitions told the Joint Committee on Housing that Massachusetts should create a permanent interagency board to steer financing and development of supportive housing.
What was proposed: H1552 / S991 would establish an interagency supportive housing finance and strategy board to coordinate state agencies, combine financing streams and implement a supportive-housing pipeline. Witnesses said…
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