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Advocates push state affordable-housing trust fund to require 10% accessible units; Worcester already at 10%
Summary
Benjie Kemper of the Center for Living and Working described a statewide coalition pushing the Executive Office of Housing to set a 10% accessibility requirement for state Affordable Housing Trust Fund awards; he said Worcester’s local trust already requires 10% accessibility.
Benjie (Benjie/Benjie Kemper) of the Center for Living and Working told the Accessibility Advisory Commission that advocates are organizing a statewide campaign to raise the accessibility requirement for the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Trust Fund to 10 percent.
"We got, the Affordable Housing Trust Fund in Worcester," Kemper said, and "we require ... 10% is accessible, and it created 57 additional units, coming online…
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