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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 484 FILED ON: 1/9/2025 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1543 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Kate Lipper-Garabedian |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act improving municipal access to general existing housing data. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Kate Lipper-Garabedian32nd Middlesex1/9/2025 1 of 3 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 484 FILED ON: 1/9/2025 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1543 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1543) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian for legislation to improve municipal access to general existing |
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| 20 | 20 | | housing data. Housing. |
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| 21 | 21 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 22 | 22 | | _______________ |
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| 23 | 23 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court |
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| 24 | 24 | | (2025-2026) |
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| 25 | 25 | | _______________ |
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| 26 | 26 | | An Act improving municipal access to general existing housing data. |
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| 27 | 27 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 28 | 28 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 29 | 29 | | 1 SECTION 1 - Chapter 23B of the general laws is hereby amended by adding after section |
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| 30 | 30 | | 230, the following section: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 3 Section 31 – Housing Data Reporting |
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| 32 | 32 | | 4 (a)Notwithstanding any general or special laws to the contrary, the executive office shall |
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| 33 | 33 | | 5collect and make available to municipalities, state agencies, and other state and regional public |
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| 34 | 34 | | 6entities in a centralized, machine-readable, screen reader compatible database the following data |
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| 35 | 35 | | 7for each new development with one or more units of subsidized housing in each municipality in |
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| 36 | 36 | | 8the commonwealth: |
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| 37 | 37 | | 9 (i) the total number of units; |
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| 38 | 38 | | 10 (ii) the total number of units with long-term use restrictions limiting occupancy based on |
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| 39 | 39 | | 11income and the total number of market rate units; 2 of 3 |
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| 40 | 40 | | 12 (iii) the total number of units with long-term use restrictions limiting occupancy to |
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| 41 | 41 | | 13households with incomes at or below eighty percent, fifty percent, and thirty percent of area |
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| 42 | 42 | | 14median income, respectively; |
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| 43 | 43 | | 15 (iv) the term and end date of all long-term use restrictions based on income; |
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| 44 | 44 | | 16 (v) the number of bedrooms and bathrooms per unit; |
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| 45 | 45 | | 17 (vi) the gross and livable square footage per unit; |
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| 46 | 46 | | 18 (vii) the location of the development, expressed as an address that can be matched to a |
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| 47 | 47 | | 19geocoded record in a statewide address database maintained by the Commonwealth; provided, |
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| 48 | 48 | | 20that, for scattered site developments, an address and unit count shall be reported for each |
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| 49 | 49 | | 21separate parcel. |
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| 50 | 50 | | 22 (b)Further, the executive office shall collect and make available to municipalities, state |
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| 51 | 51 | | 23agencies, and other state and regional public entities in said centralized, machine-readable, |
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| 52 | 52 | | 24screen reader compatible database the following data for each existing development which |
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| 53 | 53 | | 25contains at least one unit of subsidized housing in each municipality in the commonwealth: |
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| 54 | 54 | | 26 (i) the total number of units |
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| 55 | 55 | | 27 (ii) the total number of units with long-term use restrictions based on income |
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| 56 | 56 | | 28 (iii) the term and end date of long-term use restrictions based on income |
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| 57 | 57 | | 29 (iv) the location of the development, expressed as an address that can be matched to a |
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| 58 | 58 | | 30geocoded record in a statewide address database maintained by the Commonwealth; provided, 3 of 3 |
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| 59 | 59 | | 31that for scattered site developments, an address and unit count shall be reported for each separate |
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| 60 | 60 | | 32parcel. |
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| 61 | 61 | | 33 (c)The database established by this section shall be regularly maintained and updated, |
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| 62 | 62 | | 34with each datum updated no less than annually for each municipality. |
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| 63 | 63 | | 35 (d)Subsection (b) of section 31 of Chapter 23B of the General Laws is hereby repealed. |
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| 64 | 64 | | 36 (e)Subsection (a) of section 31 of Chapter 23B of the General Laws is hereby amended |
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| 65 | 65 | | 37by striking the word “new” where it appears after the word “each” |
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| 66 | 66 | | 38 (f)Subsection (d) and (e) shall take effect December 31, 2027. |
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