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‘Incredibly powerful tool’: Phase-in of new state law to expand housing supply starts this month
Boston25 News
“It’s an incredibly powerful tool to meet our goals for housing, transportation, sustainability, diversity, and inclusion,” said Lily Linke, MBTA Communities Engagement Manager for CHAPA, a Boston-based non-profit that advocates for affordable housing.
Judge allows Mass. to implement emergency shelter ‘cap’ amid influx of migrants
NBC Boston
“Nobody wants to see families on the street. We need to make sure that people are safe. It’s getting colder every day, and this is not a situation that can continue.” [Matt Noyes, CHAPA’s Director of Public Policy]
Healey: Housing bond bill will ‘meet the moment’ of Mass. housing crisis
MassLive
“Stabilizing prices and rents that are too high for too many means that we need to be intentional about affordability … The housing bond bill filed today provides the funding and policies for that intentionality, so that we can be intentional about affordability, about equity and about choice.”
As state rents 3,000 hotel and motel rooms for family shelter units, some longtime occupants end up displaced
WBUR
“There may need to be more capacity added at the state level to be able to work closely with whoever owns or is operating the motels, the hotels and to be asking that question, ‘Are people living there already?’” Heller said.