Chapter 494. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR HOUSING PRESERVATION AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
SECTION 1. To provide for a program of housing preservation and neighborhood development, there is hereby made available, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified under the provisions of this act, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof the amounts set forth in items 3722-8891, 3722-8892, 3722-8896, 3722-8898, 3722-8899, 3722-8900 of section two. To provide for a program of housing preservation and neighborhood development, there is hereby made available, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof, for the purposes and subject to the conditions and amount specified under the provisions of item 3722-8894 of section two, an amount not to exceed, in each year, six times the amount designated to be expended pursuant to item 3722-8900 in that year in a capital spending plan broken down by authorization item to be
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submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means by the executive office of communities and development; provided, further, that the amounts made available in this act shall not be available in any year in which less than fifteen percent of the total amount designated in said capital plan is made available pursuant to item 3722-8900; and provided, further, that if in any year the amounts designated in said capital plan are not expended, any such deficiency amount must be expended in the following year in addition to any amounts otherwise required to be made available pursuant to this section. SECTION 2. Item
3722-8891 For state financial assistance in the form of a grant by the commonwealth acting by and through the department of community affairs within the executive office of communities and development; provided, however, that said department may enter into a contract or contracts with housing authorities for the development costs of housing projects for families of low income pursuant to the provisions of section thirty-four of chapter one hundred and twenty-one B of the General Laws, or for elderly persons of low income pursuant to the provisions of section forty-one of said chapter; provided further, that for any and all amounts expended from this item for the development of housing projects for families of low income pursuant to said section thirty-four, equal amounts shall be allocated and expended from this item to fund projects that satisfy the regulations adopted pursuant to item 3222-9006 of section two of chapter one hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-three; provided further, that the costs of professional personnel, excluding clerical and support personnel, directly and exclusively involved in the construction and planning and design of the projects funded herein may be charged to this item; provided, that said costs shall not be classified as administrative costs; provided further, that an amount not to exceed two percent of the amount authorized herein may be expended for the administrative costs directly attributable to the programs funded herein, including the costs of clerical and support personnel; and provided further, that the secretary of communities and development shall file an annual spending plan with the budget bureau and the house and senate committees on ways and means which details, by subsidiary, all personnel costs and administrative costs charged to this item.........................................   $20,000,000
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3722-8892 For state financial assistance in the form of a grant by the commonwealth acting by and through the department of community affairs within the executive office of communities and development; provided, however, that said department may enter into a contract or contracts with housing authorities for the development costs of housing projects for handicapped persons of low income or families of low income of which one or more persons is handicapped pursuant to the provisions of section forty-one A of said chapter; provided further, that the costs of professional personnel, excluding clerical and support personnel, directly and exclusively involved in the construction and planning and design of the projects funded herein may be charged to this item; provided, that said costs shall not be classified as administrative costs; provided further, that an amount not to exceed two percent of the amount authorized herein may be expended for the administrative costs directly attributable to the programs funded herein, including the costs of clerical and support personnel; and provided further, that the secretary of communities and development shall file an annual spending plan with the budget bureau and the house and senate committees on ways and means which details, by subsidiary, all personnel costs and administrative costs charged to this item...........  $20,000,000
3722-8894 For state financial assistance in the form of a grant by the commonwealth acting by and through the department of community affairs within the executive office of communities and development; provided, however, that said department may enter into a contract or contracts with housing authorities for projects undertaken pursuant to clause (j) of section twenty-six of chapter one hundred and twenty-one B of the General Laws, including, but not limited to, renovation, remodeling, reconstruction, redevelopment, hazardous material abatement, including asbestos and lead paint, and for compliance with state codes and laws; provided, however, that three quarters of the amount made available pursuant to this item shall fund projects undertaken for the purpose of compliance with state codes and laws or for other purposes related to the health and safety of residents; provided, however, that if all needs relating to compliance with state codes and protecting health and safety are met the restriction
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in the preceding proviso shall no longer apply; provided
further, that the costs of professional personnel, excluding
clerical and  support personnel,  directly and exclusively
involved in the construction and planning and design of the
projects funded herein may be charged to this item; provided,
that said costs shall not be classified as administrative costs;
provided further, that an amount not to exceed two percent of
the amount authorized herein may be expended for the
administrative costs directly attributable to the programs
funded herein, including the costs of clerical and support
personnel;  and  provided  further,  that the  secretary of
communities and development shall file an annual spending
plan with the budget bureau and the house and senate
committees on ways and means which details, by subsidiary,
all personnel costs and administrative costs charged to this
item.......................................,   $130,000,000
3722-8896 For state financial assistance in the form of community development action grants by the commonwealth acting by and through the department of community affairs within the executive office of communities and development, pursuant to section fifty-seven A of chapter one hundred and twenty-one B of the General Laws; provided, that the costs of professional personnel, excluding clerical and support personnel, directly and exclusively involved in the construction and planning and design of the projects funded herein may be charged to this item; provided further, that said costs shall not be classified as administrative costs; provided further, that an amount not to exceed two percent of the amount authorized herein may be expended for the administrative costs directly attributable to the programs funded herein, including the costs of clerical and support personnel; and provided further, that the secretary of communities and development shall file an annual spending plan with the budget bureau and the house and senate committees on ways and means which details, by subsidiary, all personnel costs and administrative costs charged to this item.........................................   $20,000,000
3722-8898 For state financial assistance in the form of grants or loans by the commonwealth acting by and through the executive office of communities and development; provided, that said office
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shall administer a Lead Paint Abatement Program for the purpose of removing, covering, or encapsulating paint, plaster, doors, windows, windowsills, trim, woodwork, or other fixtures on residential premises containing dangerous levels of lead; provided further, that such grants may be provided to the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency; provided however, that said agency may enter into subcontracts with community development corporations, for-profit or non-profit organizations to carry out the purpose of such grants or loans; provided further, that the costs of professional personnel, excluding clerical and support personnel, directly and exclusively involved in the construction and planning and design of the projects funded herein may be charged to this item; provided, that said costs shall not be classified as administrative costs; provided further, that an amount not to exceed two percent of the amount authorized herein may be expended for the administrative costs directly attributable to the programs funded herein, including the costs of clerical and support personnel; and provided further, that the executive office of communities and development shall file an annual spending plan with the budget bureau and the house and senate committees on ways and means which details, by subsidiary, all personnel costs and administrative costs charged to this
item.........................................   $25,000,000
3722-8899 For state financial assistance in the form of loans by the commonwealth acting by and through the department of community affairs within the executive office of communities and development for the development of alternative forms of rental and ownership housing; provided, that said forms of housing shall include, but not be limited to: single room occupancy units; limited equity cooperative housing; transitional housing for the homeless; battered women's shelters; mutual housing; housing acquired by non-profit entities pursuant to Title II of the National Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987, and Title VI of the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990; and other innovative forms of housing; provided further, that at least half of the beneficiaries of such housing shall be persons of incomes less than eighty percent of the area wide median income as determined from time to time by the United States
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department of housing and urban development; provided further, that said loan program shall be administered by the department of community affairs within the executive office of communities and development through contracts with authorities which shall include housing authorities and redevelopment authorities duly organized and existing in accordance with chapter one hundred and twenty-one B of the General Laws, and may also include community development corporations duly organized and existing in accordance with chapter forty F of the General Laws, the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, a body politic and corporate entity established by chapter seven hundred and eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-six, as amended, the Massachusetts community economic development assistance corporation (CEDAC), a body politic and corporate entity, established by chapter forty H of the General Laws, and the Massachusetts Government Land Bank, a body politic and corporate entity established by chapter two hundred and twelve of the acts of nineteen hundred and seventy-five, as amended; provided, however, that said loan issuing authorities may develop or finance said housing, or may enter into subcontracts with non-profit organizations established pursuant to chapter one hundred eighty of the General Laws; provided, however, that such alternative forms of housing funded pursuant to this item may be made available to individuals of low income in the event that public housing units become unavailable to said individuals due to the implementation of the economic diversity pilot program established in item 3222-9006 of section two of chapter one hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-three; provided further, that loans issued pursuant to this item shall be subject to the following provisions: (1) said loans shall be limited to not more than thirty percent of the financing of the total development costs; (2) said loans shall only be issued when any contract or agreement for the use of said property for the purposes of such housing provides for the recording of a restriction in the registry of deeds or the registry district of the land court of the county in which the affected real property is located, for the benefit of said department, running with the land, that the land be used for the purpose of providing alternative forms of rental and ownership housing; provided, that said property shall not be
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released from such restriction unless and until the balance of the principal and interest for said loan is repaid in full or unless and until a mortgage foreclosure deed is recorded; (4) said loans shall be issued for a term of up to thirty years during which time repayment may be deferred by the loan issuing authority unless at the end of any fiscal year, cash collections from all sources in connection with such housing, except for contributions, donations, or grant monies, exceed one hundred and five percent of cash expenditures on behalf of said housing, including debt service, operating expenses, operating reserves, and capital reserves, in which event such excess cash shall be paid to the commonwealth within forty-five days of the end of said fiscal year, payable first to interest due hereunder and thereafter to principal advanced pursuant to said loan; provided, that if on the date said loans become due and payable to the commonwealth an outstanding balance exists, said loans may be extended for such periods, each period not to extend beyond ten years, as the department determines; provided, that the project continues to remain affordable housing as set forth in the contract or agreement entered into for the duration of the project by the department; provided, further, that in the event that the terms of repayment detailed in this item would cause a project authorized by this item to become ineligible to receive federal funds which would otherwise assist in the development of that project, the commissioner shall be authorized to waive the terms of repayment which would cause the project to become ineligible; (5) interest rates for said loans shall be fixed at a rate, to be determined by the secretary of communities and development in consultation with the treasurer of the commonwealth; (6) expenditures from this item shall not be made for the purpose of refinancing outstanding mortgage loans for housing in existence prior to the effective date of this act unless said housing had previously received funding pursuant to item 3722-8879 of section three of chapter two hundred and twenty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-seven; (7) said department shall take due consideration of a balanced geographic plan for such alternative forms of housing when issuing said loans; and (8) housing projects developed pursuant to this act shall not be refinanced during the term of
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any loan issued pursuant to this item unless and until the balance of the principal and interest for such loan is repaid in full at the time of such refinancing; provided, that said housing projects may be refinanced if such refinancing would result in a reduction of costs paid by the commonwealth; provided further, that any such refinanced loan shall be due and payable on a date no later than the date on which the original loan was due and payable, except in accordance with subsection (4) of this item, or is necessary to effect extraordinary repairs or maintenance to be approved by the secretary of communities and development; and provided further, that the executive office of communities and development is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate regulations for the implementation of the housing loan program authorized by this item; provided further, that the costs of professional personnel, excluding clerical and support personnel, directly and exclusively involved in the construction and planning and design of the projects funded herein may be charged to this item; provided, that said costs shall not be classified as administrative costs; provided further, that an amount not to exceed two percent of the amount authorized herein may be expended for the administrative costs directly attributable to the programs funded herein, including the costs of clerical and support personnel; and provided further, that the secretary of communities and development shall file an annual spending plan with the budget bureau and the house and senate committees on ways and means which details, by subsidiary, all personnel costs and administrative costs charged to this
item.........................................   $30,000,000
3722-8900 For state financial assistance in the form of grants or loans by the commonwealth acting by and through the department of community affairs within the executive office of communities and development; provided, however, that said department shall administer a program for the purpose of undertaking projects to develop and support affordable housing developments and homeownership affordability through the acquisition, preservation and rehabilitation of affordable housing; provided, that such program may include assistance for projects to stabilize and promote reinvestment in cities and towns including, but not limited to, acquisition, rehabilitation and preservation of foreclosed and distressed
properties; provided further, that assistance provided through this program may be made in a manner which qualifies such assistance as a matching contribution under Section 220 of the HOME Investment Partnership Act (the Act), Title II of the Cranston Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; provided further, that grants or loans shall be provided to any agency, department, board, commission, authority or instrumentality of the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, housing authorities, community development corporations; provided, however, that said recipients may enter into subcontracts to administer the purposes of such contract with other for-profit or non-profit organizations; provided, however, that such alternative forms of housing funded pursuant to this item may be made available to individuals of low income in the event that public housing units become unavailable to said individuals due to the implementation of the economic diversity pilot program established in item 3222-9006 of section two of chapter one hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-three; provided, further, that prior to providing assistance, the department shall find: (1) that the housing would not by private enterprise alone and without government assistance be available to lower income families and individuals; (2) that the amount of the assistance appears to be the minimum amount necessary to make the housing development feasible; (3) that with respect to rental housing, the operations of the owner and its articles of organization and by laws, and any changes to either, will be subject to regulation by the department; and (4) that the housing shall remain affordable for its useful life as determined by the department; provided further, that such housing shall be considered affordable if during the first twenty years after assistance is first provided, substantially all of the assisted units are to be rented to or owned by families and individuals whose income at initial occupancy is equal to or less than eighty percent of the median income as determined by the secretary of housing and urban development for the federal housing programs, and that thereafter units are to be rented or sold, subject to such restrictions on appreciation as determined by the department to be reasonable and necessary to maintain long term affordability, to families or individuals
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at incomes at or below one hundred percent of the median
income; provided further, that funds provided herein may be
used for grants to cities and towns to assist with the costs of
demolishing certain privately owned buildings taken by the
city or town for taxes that are vacant and abandoned and that
have been found to be uninhabitable and not economically
feasible to rehabilitate; provided, that any such demolition
shall be undertaken in accordance with a neighborhood
revitalization plan adopted by the city or town after a public
hearing and after approval by the department which provides
for the rehabilitation and development of housing and or in
the  area  or areas  in which  such  demolition  is being
undertaken; and provided further, that the executive office of
communities and development shall promulgate regulations
for the purpose of implementing the provisions of this item
including, but not limited to, grants to cities and towns for
demolition of certain vacant and abandoned buildings and
procedures for neighborhood revitalization plans; provided,
further, notwithstanding the restrictions described in this
item, that funds provided herein may be used for the purposes
described in item 3322-8880 of section two of chapter one
hundred  and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and
ninety-three; provided further, that not less than thirty percent
of the funds made available from this item in any year shall
be used to provide homeownership opportunities to persons
of low and moderate income; provided further, that the costs
of professional personnel, excluding clerical and support
personnel,   directly   and   exclusively   involved   in   the
construction and planning and design of the projects funded
herein may be charged to this item; provided, that said costs
shall not be classified as administrative costs; provided
further, that an amount not to exceed two percent of the
amount   authorized  herein  may  be   expended  for  the
administrative costs directly attributable to the programs
funded herein, including the costs of clerical and support
personnel;  and  provided further,  that the  secretary  of
communities and development shall file an annual spending
plan with the budget bureau and the house and senate
committees on ways and means which details, by subsidiary,
all personnel costs and administrative costs charged to this
item.........................................   $50,000,000
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SECTION 3. Section 39 of chapter 12 IB of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1992 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "chapter", in line 11, the following words:- ; provided, however, that the secretary of communities and development shall issue regulations requiring that in any state-funded project which contains units for both elderly persons of low income and handicapped persons of low income, the number of units occupied by non-elderly persons shall not exceed ten percent of the total number of units; provided, further, that the secretary shall develop and implement said regulations in a manner consistent with relevant federal laws.
SECTION 3A. The secretary of communities and development is hereby authorized and directed to establish a special commission including members of the general court, to determine the total unmet housing needs of low income persons with disabilities, conduct a housing needs assessment which includes an estimate of low income handicapped persons not on the waiting lists and assess alternative resources and housing models. The commission shall submit a report of their findings to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and ninety-four.
SECTION 4.   Section 2 of chapter 52 of the acts of 1993 is hereby amended by striking out item 4000-8200 and inserting in place thereof the following item:-Item
4000-8200 For state financial assistance to implement the recommendations of the special commission in the form of loans for the development of community-based housing for the mentally ill and mentally retarded; provided, that said loan program shall be administered by the department of community affairs within the executive office of communities and development through contracts with authorities which shall be limited to housing authorities and redevelopment authorities duly organized and existing in accordance with chapter one hundred and twenty-one B of the General Laws, community development corporations duly organized and existing in accordance with chapter forty F of the General Laws, the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, a body politic and corporate entity established by chapter seven hundred and eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-six, as amended, the Massachusetts community economic development assistance corporation (CEDAC), a body politic and corporate entity established by chapter forty H of the General Laws, and the Massachusetts Government Land Bank, a body politic and corporate entity established by chapter two hundred and twelve of the acts of nineteen hundred and seventy-five; provided, that said loan issuing authorities may develop or finance said community-based housing, or may enter into subcontracts with non-profit organizations established pursuant to chapter one
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hundred and eighty of the General Laws or organizations in which such non-profit corporations have a controlling financial or managerial interest; provided, however, that said department shall take due consideration of a balanced geographic plan for such community-based housing when issuing said loans; provided further, that loans issued pursuant to this item shall be subject to the following provisions: (1) said loans shall be limited to not more than thirty percent of the financing of the total development costs; (2) said loans shall only be issued for a community-based housing project contingent on the title to said real property reverting to the commonwealth when said loan becomes due and payable except as provided by section three; (3) said loans shall only be issued when any contract or agreement for the use of said property for the purposes of such community-based housing provides for the recording of a restriction, for the benefit of the said departments, running with the land, that the land be used for the purpose of providing community-based housing for the mentally ill, or mentally retarded and related uses; unless and until the balance of the principal and interest for said loan is repaid in full and is released from such restriction as provided pursuant to section three of this act; (4) said loans shall be issued for a term of up to thirty years during which time repayment may be deferred by the loan issuing authority unless at the end of any fiscal year, cash collections from all sources in connection with a community-based housing project, except for contributions, donations, or grant monies, exceed one hundred and five percent of cash expenditures on behalf of said project, including debt service, operating expenses, and capital reserves, in which event such excess cash shall be paid to the commonwealth within forty-five days of the end of said fiscal year, payable first to interest due hereunder and thereafter to principal advanced pursuant to said loan; provided, that if on the date said loans become due and payable to the commonwealth an outstanding balance exists, said loans may be extended for a period not to exceed ten years for the purpose of repaying the outstanding principal and interest on said loans; (5) interest rates for said loans shall be fixed at a rate, to be determined by the secretary for communities and development in consultation with the treasurer of the commonwealth, that shall be equal to the rate anticipated to be that paid by the commonwealth for
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bonds issued pursuant to section eight of this act; which financing shall not exceed terms of thirty years; (6) expenditures from this item shall not be made for the purpose of refinancing outstanding mortgage loans for community-based housing in existence prior to the effective date of this act; except for community-based housing purchased or developed in accordance with the governor's special commission for former residents of the Belchertown state school and the Norfolk Street Project located in the city of Cambridge; (7) community-based housing projects developed pursuant to this act shall not be refinanced during the term of any loan issued pursuant to this item unless and until the balance of the principal and interest for such loan is repaid in full at the time of such refinancing; provided, that said community-based housing projects may be refinanced if such refinancing would result in a reduction of costs paid by the commonwealth; provided further, that any such refinanced loan shall be due and payable on a date no later than the date on which the original loan was due and payable, except in accordance with subsection (4) of this item, or is necessary to effect extraordinary repairs or maintenance to be approved by the commissioners of capital planning and operations, and mental retardation, or mental health, as appropriate, and the house and senate committees on ways and means; (8) said loans shall be provided only for projects conforming to the provisions of this act; and (9) said loans shall be issued in accordance with a facilities consolidation plan prepared by the secretary of health and human services, reviewed and approved by the secretary of communities and development and filed with the secretary for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided, that no expenditures shall be made pursuant to this item without the prior approval of the secretary for administration and finance; provided further, that not more than ten million dollars may be expended from this item for a pilot program of community-based housing loans to serve mentally ill homeless individuals in the current or former care of said department of mental health; provided further, that in implementing said pilot program, said department shall take due consideration of a balanced geographic plan when establishing community-based residences; provided further, that said housing services made available pursuant to such
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loans shall not be construed as a right or an entitlement for any individual or class of persons to the benefits of said pilot program; provided that eligibility for said pilot program shall be established by regulations promulgated by the said department. The executive office of communities and development is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate emergency regulations pursuant to section two of chapter thirty A of the General Laws for the implementation of the community-based housing loan program and the mentally ill homeless pilot loan program authorized by this item, consistent with the facilities consolidation plan prepared by the secretary of health and human services and after consultation with said secretary and the commissioner of the
division of capital planning and operations  ............   $50,000,000
SECTION 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-nine of chapter one hundred and twenty-one B of the General Laws, in any state-funded project which contains units for both elderly persons of low income and handicapped persons of low income, if on the effective date of this section, the number of units occupied by such handicapped persons exceeds ten percent of the total units in the project, the housing authority shall allow any such handicapped person residing in said units on the effective date of this section to continue to reside therein.
SECTION 6. To meet the expenditures necessary in carrying out the provisions of section two of this act, the state treasurer shall, upon request of the governor, issue and sell bonds of the commonwealth to an amount to be specified by the governor from time to time, but not exceeding in the aggregate, the sum of two hundred and ninety-five million dollars. All bonds issued by the commonwealth, as aforesaid, shall be designated on their face, Housing Preservation and Neighborhood Development Act of 1993, and shall be issued for such maximum term of years not exceeding twenty years, as the governor may recommend to the general court pursuant to Section 3 of Article LXI1 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth; provided, however, that all such bonds shall be sold at public bidding pursuant to section fifty-three of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws and shall be payable not later than June thirtieth, two thousand and eighteen. Bonds and interest thereon under the authority of this section shall be general obligations of the commonwealth. SECTION 7. The state treasurer may borrow from time to time on the credit of the commonwealth such sums of money as may be necessary for the purpose of meeting payments authorized by section two and may issue and renew from time to time notes of the commonwealth therefore, bearing interest payable at such time and at such rates as shall be fixed by the state treasurer. Such notes shall be issued and may be renewed one or more times for such terms, not exceeding one year, as the governor may recommend to the general court in accordance with Section 3 of Article LXII of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, but the final maturities of such notes, whether original or renewal, shall not be later than June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-nine. Notes and interest
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thereon issued under the authority of this section shall be general obligations of the commonwealth.
SECTION 8. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the division of capital planning and operations shall convey to the Massachusetts Special Olympics, Inc. the land and buildings currently leased to the Massachusetts Special Olympics by the commonwealth at a price to be determined by negotiation; provided, however, that the terms and sale price of the conveyance as negotiated by the division of capital planning and operations are approved by the inspector general; provided further, that the inspector general shall in his determination give due consideration to prior investments made in the land and buildings to be conveyed and such related costs incurred beyond the terms of the lease by Massachusetts Special Olympics, Inc.
SECTION 9. Section (18) of chapter 21 A, as appearing in the 1992 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding after the word "authority" in line 22, the following:- or any tribal housing authority of a federally recognized Indian tribe when constructing housing.
SECTION 10. Section (18) of chapter 21A, as appearing in the 1992 Official Edition, is hereby further amended by striking the words "or agency" in line 243, and inserting in place thereof:- agency, or tribal housing authority.
SECTION 11. Section (18) of chapter 21 A, as appearing in the 1992 Official Edition, is hereby further amended by striking the words "or agencies" in lines 247 and 263, and inserting in place thereof:- agencies or tribal housing authorities.
SECTION 12. Section 32 of chapter 12 IB of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1992 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the sixth paragraph the following paragraph: -
Any tenant of a housing authority who is convicted of violating the provisions of section thirty-two, thirty-two A, thirty-two B, thirty-two C, thirty-two D, thirty-two E, thirty-two F, or thirty-two I of chapter ninety-four C while on housing authority property shall be evicted. Such a conviction shall be cause for such eviction and an action for summary process shall be brought by the housing authority. Any regulation of any agency of the commonwealth or subdivision thereof, or any provision in any lease between the tenant, the landlord, and a housing authority contrary to the provisions of the section shall be void.
SECTION 13. The executive office of communities and development shall develop a plan to expedite the development of housing for the disabled and report back to the joint committee on housing and urban development by April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and ninety-four.
SECTION 14. There is hereby established a special commission under the department of economic affairs to consist of seven members who shall include the secretary of economic affairs or his designee, the secretary of communities and development or his designee, the chairmen of the house and senate committees on commerce and labor, or their designees, one person to be designated by the Federal Reserve Bank, one person to be designated by the Homebuilders Association of Massachusetts, and one person to be designated by the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, for the purpose of making an investigation and study of state and local regulatory barriers to the development of affordable
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housing by the private sector, and what measures state and local agencies can implement to address these barriers and develop solutions resulting in policies that would increase the supply of affordable housing by the private sector and facilitate job creation and economic growth in the commonwealth. Said commission shall meet at least once per month and shall report the results of its investigation and study and its recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry such recommendations into effect, by filing the same with the governor of the commonwealth, and the clerk of the senate on or before September first, nineteen hundred and ninety-four. Said clerk shall forward copies of said report to the joint committee on housing and urban development and the house and senate committees on ways and means.
SECTION 15. All amounts provided under provisions of this act shall be in addition to any amount previously authorized prior to the passage of this act.
This bill was returned on January 14, 1994, by the Governor to the House of Representatives, the Branch in which said bill originated with his objections in writing to the following items therein:
Items Disapproved:
SECTIONS 3,5, and 12 disapproved
The remainder of the bill was approved by the Governor on January 14, 1994 at four o'clock and fifty minutes P.M. Emergency Letter: January 18, 1994 @ 12:14 P.M.