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House committee hears DHCD briefing on inventory of state-owned land for housing
Summary
The committee received a briefing from DHCD Commissioner Alex Farrell on an executive-order-informed inventory that produced 78 candidate parcels (mostly AOT-owned) for potential housing reuse; DHCD will narrow to 5–10 parcels for deeper study and engage municipalities.
Alex Farrell, commissioner of the Department of Housing and Community Development, briefed the House Corrections & Institutions committee on Jan. 28 about an inventory of state-owned land and buildings undertaken under a governor’s executive order and coordinated with multiple agencies. Farrell said agencies reported data by Dec. 1 and DHCD applied four broad criteria—parcels half an acre or larger, no conservation easement, feasible site infrastructure (water/wastewater/soil), and proximity to existing roads—to identify an initial universe of candidate properties.
After excluding low-confidence and missing-geometry parcels, Farrell said the working…
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