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Posts published in January 2020

BPDA YEAR-END REPORT BPDA approved 4,974 residential units, 24 percent of which were income-restricted, in 2019

Projects will generate over $2 million in new  IDP funds, $21.7 million in linkage to support affordable housing, workforce training BOSTON, MA – On Tuesday, December 31, 2019, The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) Board announced that in 2019 they approved over 10.2 million square feet of new development…

COMMENTARY How Presidents Get Their Facts By Lee H. Hamilton Former US Congressman for 34 Years

Here’s a basic truth about people who make decisions on public policy: they rarely have all the facts they want. Over the years, I’ve sat in countless meetings in which, after we’d reached a sticking point, someone said in exasperation, “Well, what are the facts?” We’d all look around the room because, no matter how much information was already on the…

STATE HOUSE NEWS Funding Extended and increased for Successful Electric Vehicle Rebate Program

BOSTON – The Baker-Polito Administration has announced an extension of the Commonwealth’s electric vehicle rebate program.   Massachusetts Offers Rebates for Electric Vehicles (MOR-EV) beginning on January 1, 2020 and lasting through at least December 31, 2021.    Since June 2014, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has dedicated over $31 million in this effort by incentivizing…