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Local Revenue is a Key Tool to Advance Housing Affordability
Author:
Victoria DiLorenzo
Year:
2025
Description:
In this new report, MassBudget Housing Analyst Victoria DiLorenzo discusses how municipal affordable housing trusts create and preserve affordable housing locally, and how local revenue can be a key tool in addressing the Commonwealth’s housing affordability crisis. The report focuses on the 19 communities that have filed home rule petitions seeking state permission to enact a real estate transfer fee. Read more.