The Housing Choice Initiative rewards municipalities that have produced certain rates or amounts of new housing units in the last five years and that adopted best practices related to housing production that will sustain a 21st century workforce and increase access to opportunity for Massachusetts residents. Communities that achieve the Housing Choice designation have exclusive access to apply for the Housing Choice Grant Program and receive bonus points or other considerations to certain state grant programs. In FY 22, the Housing Choice Small Town capital grant program will be replaced by an expanded grant program "Rural and Small Town Grants" authorized in the Economic Development Bond Bill.
