http://www.mma.org/economic-a-community-development/12614-1-4b-housing-bond-bill-signed-into-law
The housing bond bill actually was signed by the Governor in Nov of 2013. $500 million will go towards repairing public housing over 5 years. The housing authority reform act was signed in August of 2014. On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Peter S <[email protected]> wrote: > https://malegislature.gov/Bills/188/House/H1127 > > $1.5 Billion housing bond bill has passed > > Public housing in Massachusetts is comprised of 45,60 housing > authority controlled apartments. 70% of these are occupied by elderly > or disabled residents. The vast majority of the residents are > extremely low income (below 30% of area median income). > > http://www.mass.gov/hed/docs/dhcd/ph/ph-reform/publichousingcommissionreport0612.pdf > - per page 19 of 52 > > (Section 8 is a different program. Section 8 uses privately owned apartments). > > Lets hope that the $1.5B bond bill translates into vast upgrades for > the resiliency of public housing in Massachusetts -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
