Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities services & programs

The Section 8 Tenant-Based Rental Assistance provides rental subsidies and support services for persons living with HIV/AIDS.

The Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) manages this program that serves homeless veterans with disabilities, severe psychiatric, and/or substance abuse disorders.

Refinance or sell your deed restricted home.

Smart Growth ~ Sustainable Development Design and Green Building Links

Chapter 40Y provides communities with a zoning tool to meet local needs for smaller, more affordable, starter homes.

is used to measure a community's stock of low-or moderate-income housing for the purposes of M.G.L. Chapter 40B, the Comprehensive Permit Law.

This program authorizes cities and towns to promote housing and commercial development, including affordable housing, in commercial centers through tax increment financing.

This program takes on residential, commercial, civic, recreational, historic or industrial projects in areas which are considered to be decadent, substandard or blighted open space.

EOHLC’s Livable Communities Division administers the urban renewal program, including assisting municipalities which are establishing urban renewal agencies, and providing technical assistance to prepare and implement Urban Renewal Plans.