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  2. Massachusetts Comprehensive Permit Act: Chapter 40B

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    The goal of the Affordable Housing Law (Chapter 40B) is to make at least 10% of every Massachusetts's community's housing stock affordable for moderate income households. As of June 30, 2011, 39 communities had met that goal. Details are available on the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Subsidized Housing Inventory.

  3. Low-Income Housing Tax Credit - Wikipedia

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    Living spaces. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is a federal program in the United States that awards tax credits to housing developers in exchange for agreeing to reserve a certain fraction of rent-restricted units for lower-income households. [1] The program was created under the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86) to incentivize the use ...

  4. Federal aid during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

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    The Canada Emergency Response Benefit ( CERB; French: Prestation canadienne d'urgence) was a program that provided a taxable benefit of CA$ 2,000 per month for Canadian residents facing unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] [7] [8] Initially announced as providing a maximum of four months' financial support, the federal government ...

  5. Massachusetts’ Low Income Home Energy Assistance ... - AOL

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    The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) is starting its Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) on Nov. 1. Learn: 7 Ways To Keep Your Home Heating Bill ...

  6. Massachusetts has a huge waitlist for state-funded housing ...

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    Deb Libby is running out of time to find a place to live. Libby, 56, moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, four years ago, in part to be closer to the doctors treating her for pancreatic cancer.

  7. Affordable housing - Wikipedia

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    In some countries, public housing is focused on providing affordable housing for low-income earners while in others, such as Singapore, citizens across a wide range of incomes live in public housing. [136] [137] In Vienna, Austria, social housing may be completely government built and run or include a mixture of public land and private-sector ...

  8. Community Reinvestment Act - Wikipedia

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    The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA, P.L. 95-128, 91 Stat. 1147, title VIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, 12 U.S.C. § 2901 et seq.) is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.

  9. These cities have 'impossibly unaffordable' housing. How ...

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    Pittsburgh’s housing market was the most affordable of the 94 cities analyzed. Rochester, New York and St. Louis, Missouri follow, rounding out the top three most affordable housing markets ...