By Representative Hall of Westford and Senator Panagiotakos, joint petition (accompanied by bill, 1233) of Geoffrey D. Hall and others relative to counting low income in determining affordable housing. Housing.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Geoffrey D. Hall

Steven C. Panagiotakos

Ellen Harde

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act relative to counting low income in determining chapter 40B affordable housing.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any special or general law, rule or regulation to the contrary, any housing unit owned and occupied by a person or family whose income is 80% or less of the Area Median Income in a Metropolitan Statistical Area as determined by the federal department of housing and urban development, shall be considered an affordable housing unit solely for the purpose of calculating a community’s required 10% low or moderate income housing as established by chapter 40B of the general laws of the commonwealth.