Affordable-Housing Change Gives Massachusetts Towns More Say, Experts Say.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: August 5, 2002 | Copyright information

By Erica Noonan, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 5--The most significant change in the state's 33-year-old affordable housing law will give suburbs a greater role in deciding how and when affordable housing developments are built, lawmakers and housing specialists said.

Under the new plan, passed by the Legislature on Wednesday, communities that voluntarily increase their affordable housing stock by 0.5 percent per year will rec...

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