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Governor Maura Healey signs $5.2 billion Affordable Homes Act at Golda Meir House
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Governor Maura Healey signed the Affordable Homes Act into law at Golda Meir House in Newton, authorizing roughly $5.2 billion and enacting 49 policy changes to speed housing production, expand tenant and accessibility protections, and create advisory commissions for implementation.
Governor Maura Healey signed the Affordable Homes Act into law at Golda Meir House in Newton, enacting roughly $5.2 billion in new housing investments and a package of policy changes meant to accelerate production and expand protections for renters and vulnerable households.
"Today, we are signing the largest investment in housing in our state's history, $5,200,000,000," Healey said, thanking municipal leaders, labor unions, advocates and legislative chairs who helped produce the bill.
The law bundles about 49 policy initiatives, officials said at the ceremony. It expands incentives for converting commercial space to housing, increases funding for public housing, allows accessory dwelling units under 900 square feet to be built by right in many places, and sets up new bodies — including an Office…
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