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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.
These incentives, like Chapter 40B, continue to be successful. But again, it’s not enough. The latest response from the Commonwealth to the growing housing crisis is MBTA Zoning.
Some residents who spoke out against the proposal conflated the MBTA Communities Act with Chapter 40B, another state law that allows developers to bypass some local laws if a town’s affordable ...
The state’s Chapter 40B affordable housing law allows developers to circumvent certain local regulations if less than 10% of the town’s housing stock is affordable and the project includes ...
Inclusionary zoning (IZ) is municipal and county planning ordinances that require or provide incentives when a given percentage of units in a new housing development be affordable by people with low to moderate incomes. Such housing is known as inclusionary housing. The term inclusionary zoning indicates that these ordinances seek to counter ...
Builder's remedy. The builder's remedy is a legal mechanism in the United States that can be used in certain states to expedite the construction of low or middle income housing when a municipality fails to comply with laws related to housing development. Typically, where a municipality fails to comply with state laws regarding the development ...
A group of citizens have put a proposed 40B development on Marshfield's special town meeting warrant over water quality concerns. Proposed affordable housing project heads to Marshfield's special ...
5 Notification: Housing in Massachusetts. 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: Massachusetts Comprehensive Permit Act: Chapter 40B.