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Advocates warn Chapter 40B housing can mask hazardous siting; ask state to prevent new EJ neighborhoods
Summary
A Slingshot leader told the council that some developers are using Chapter 40B affordable‑housing provisions to advance projects sited next to industrial or contaminated properties, and asked DEP and the state to address impacts on future residents to prevent creation of new environmental justice neighborhoods.
During the Environmental Justice Council’s public comment period, Mireya Bajani, co‑executive director of the advocacy group Slingshot, praised state agencies’ attention to environmental justice but warned of a pattern in which developers use Chapter 40B affordable‑housing incentives to push projects into unsuitable sites.
‘‘These developers are taking advantage of the streamlined permitting process that chapter 40 b allows and the incentive communities have to meet state affordable housing requirements,’’ Bajani said. She described two recent…
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