Subsidy: assistance provided by a Subsidizing Agency to assist the construction or substantial rehabilitation of Low or Moderate Income Housing,...

Subsidized Housing Inventory: DHCD’s official list of low or moderate income housing units by city or town. Subsidizing Agency: any...

Project Eligibility: a determination by a Subsidizing Agency that a Project satisfies the jurisdictional requirements of 760 CMR 56.04(1). SHI...

Low or Moderate Income Housing: any units of housing for which a Subsidizing Agency provides a subsidy under any program...

Limited Dividend Organization: any entity which proposes to sponsor a Project under Chapter 40B; and is not a public agency...

Housing Appeals Committee: A five-member body that adjudicates disputes under Chapter 40B. Three members are appointed by the Director of...

The state provides matching funds (or a partial match) from the Community Preservation Trust Fund, generated from Registry of Deeds...

Chapter 40R: G.L. c. 40R (2004 Mass. Acts 149, § 92), a state law that provides for overlay districts with...

The plan shall prohibit unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, age, disability, familial status, marital status,...

Where the following terms are used in this Handbook, they have the following meanings unless the context clearly calls for...