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Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. |
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This week, reporter Jennifer Smith covers the case before the Supreme Judicial Court between the state and the city of Marshfield, which has yet to comply with the zoning changes allowing multifamily housing near transit required by the MBTA Communities Act. The city says that the state forcing such changes should be considered an "unfunded mandate," but Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office disagrees. |
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Plus, State Auditor Diana DiZoglio demands more transparency from legislators in yet another heated hearing, concern grows among Lee residents over a PCB disposal site coming soon to their area, the Trump administration attempts to cut funding for "ultra-supportive" housing that helps the most vulnerable Bay Staters, and multiple cities that no longer meet the requirements for Gateway status continue to receive millions in benefits. |
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Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading. |
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— The CommonWealth Beacon team |
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| | The ongoing fight over the transit-centered housing law has played out in the middle of a serious housing crunch. The state has said 222,000 new homes need to be built by 2035 to meet pent up demand. | |
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| | Auditor Diana DiZoglio showed up ready to fight, and some lawmakers indulged her, at a hearing about a ballot question that would subject the Legislature and governor’s office to the public records law. | |
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| | People and wildlife in the Housatonic River Valley have been living among PCBs since the 1930s, when GE began disposing of them improperly during the manufacture of electrical transformers. | |
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| | “This program and dozens of others around the state may have to shrink or close — and some are already declining to accept new clients — because of a looming change from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development that up-ends a two-decade-old approach to housing policy.” | |
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| | Massachusetts has awarded more than $10 million in tax credits to market-rate housing developers in Salem and Quincy based on their status as Gateway Cities even though the two communities no longer met the criteria for that designation, according to funding records obtained by CommonWealth Beacon. | |
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This week on The Codcast, we dive into Gov. Maura Healey’s “Gateway to Pre-K” agenda. By the end of 2026, her administration declared that every family of a 4-year-old in the state’s 26 Gateway Cities would have the opportunity – at low or no cost – to enroll their child in a preschool program that prepares them for kindergarten. But local providers say they won’t get there. |
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