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Healy‑Driscoll House 1 proposes record housing investment, higher voucher funding and more public‑housing support
Summary
At a Ways and Means field hearing, the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities outlined the administration's House 1 FY26 housing package — including a record $1.2 billion in targeted investments, a larger rental voucher program, increased public housing support and emergency assistance stabilization.
The Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities told the Joint Committee on Ways and Means in Gloucester that the Healy‑Driscoll FY26 House 1 budget proposes a major housing package, with the administration recommending $1.2 billion in targeted and strategic investments to expand and preserve affordable housing across the Commonwealth.
Secretary Gus Bickford (as introduced) told the committee the proposal includes $125,000,000 for public housing programs — a roughly 4% increase over FY25 — and $115,500,000 in operating subsidies to local housing authorities to raise per‑unit caps and help authorities keep pace with…
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