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40B Holds Up Passage of $509M Housing Bill

BOSTON-Disagreements over changes to the state's Chapter 40B bill, which requires towns and cities in the state to have 10% affordable-housing density, are holding up the passage of the state's $509-million housing bond bill.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on March 07, 2002

BOSTON-A housing bond bill that would provide $509 million to develop and preserve affordable housing in the state over the next five years is being held up because some legislators here want to ensure that changes to the state’s Chapter 40B bill go through. 40B requires towns and cities in the state to have 10% affordable-housing density or watch developers with affordable housing projects bypass local zoning laws.

Both the House and the Senate reached an agreement on the housing bond bill but, according to Charles Rasmussen, spokesperson for House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, “before the House has final approval, people here want resolution on Chapter 40B.” Elizabeth Dillen, chief of staff for Representative Michael Cahill, chairman of the committee on housing and urban development, also tells GlobeSt.com that the reason the bond bill was held up was because the legislature wanted the Chapter 40B bill to be resolved.

While Rasmussen acknowledges that the two bills are not a package deal, he points out that some of the money in the bond bill will be used in 40B projects. “The 40B law creates parameters for affordable housing,” he says. “The bond bill money will go to affordable housing.” Because 40B is about affordable housing, he adds, and the bond bill is also, many members of the legislature see them as tied together.

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