APA-MA Inclusionary Zoning Conference

Getting Units to “Count” on the SHI

May 18, 2014

Toni Coyne Hall

Aaron Gornstein, Undersecretary

DHCD Key Initiatives

Working in Partnership with Communities

Expanding Housing Opportunities

Improving Public Housing

Preventing Foreclosure

Ending Homelessness

Investing in Community Development and

Revitalization

Building Economic Security and Self-

Sufficiency

Mission

Part of the Secretariat:

Executive Office of Housing and Economic

Development (“EOHED”).

EOHED’s mission is “the creation of homes and

jobs in the Commonwealth”.

About LIP Local Initiative Program

Established in 1990

Non-financial subsidy program

Locally initiated development

projects

Board of Selectmen/Mayor must

endorse

Access to the Comprehensive

Permit process and Local Action

LIP/Local Action Units

Affordable Units that are ‘counted’

No Comprehensive Permit is used

Result of a municipal/local action

Each Project:

Affirmative fair marketing and lottery

plan

Sale price/rent is affordable

Long term restrictions

What IsThe Subsidized

Housing Inventory

A list of the number of subsidized units in each

community and the percentage of all units.

Units count if:

—Developed under a state or federal eligible

subsidy program

—Affordable to households at or below 80% of

area median income

—Have long term restrictions

—Are fairly marketed

Counting Units-Local Action

Local Initiative Program

Long term deed

restriction

Affirmative Marketing

3 page Application

LIP/Local Action UnitsProject Types

New construction

Building conversion

Adaptive reuse

Substantial

rehabilitation

New affordability in

vacant units

LIP/Local Action UnitsProject Types

Site Reuse

New Construction

2 affordable rentals

Fair Housing Framework

Obligation to affirmatively further fair

housing

maximum opportunities for persons

protected under fair housing laws

Marketing Must Be Affirmative

The application process must be

explicitly fair in the Marketing Plan.

A local preference may not exceed more than 70% of the units in a Project

After the House Is Built

Work seems to begin all over again

Relationships

Monitoring

Legal documents/regulations

Can provide guidance for you and the

homeowner

Helpful Hints

Political will

Plan/strategy

Use existing

rules/regulations

Capacity

Education

Relationships

Contact Information

DHCD

100 Cambridge Street, Suite 300

Boston, Massachusetts 02114

Phone: 617.573.1351

www.mass.gov/dhcd