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Housing Choice Designation and Grants

If your municipality qualifies for designation as a Housing Choice Community, it will get exclusive access to a grant program open only to Housing Choice Communities and get bonus points or other considerations to certain Commonwealth grant programs.

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.

What would you like to do?

Top tasks

Apply for Housing Choice Designation  Apply for a Housing Choice Grant 

All other tasks

Apply for a Housing Choice Small Town Grant 

What you need to know

See a list of Communities that have been designated as Housing Choice Communities  Learn about the projects that have been awarded Housing Choice grants  Find participating Housing Choice grant programs  Housing Choice Designation Application Guide  Housing Choice Resources 
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