Housing Quality and Health Equity Initiative

On October 26th, MACDC hosted a Statewide Kickoff event for our Housing Quality and Health Equity Initiative (“The Equity Initiative”). Close to 100...

Breaking Ground - Two Verses with a Common Refrain

A groundbreaking on adaptive reuse for a vacant, boarded up former school in Fitchburg- 68 apartments near downtown in this Gateway City.  Another groundbreaking...

Massachusetts Can Build a Triple Threat to Attack the Housing Crisis

The affordable housing crisis facing the commonwealth’s residents is pervasive and multi-dimensional. To address it in a comprehensive manner, we need to be...

Health Equity Committee Field Trip

On June 27th eight individuals took a trip to the Hilltowns to learn about the health related work happening out of Hilltown CDC and in the surrounding communities. This...

Reform HDIP Before Expanding the Program

The Massachusetts Legislature is considering legislation (S. 1779 and H. 2724) to increase the $10 million state tax credit cap for the Housing Development Incentive...

CDCs Lead the Way in Helping Families Buy, and Keep, Their First Home

On May 16, 2023, the Healey Driscoll Administration’s Division of Banks announced nearly $3 million in grants to 23 organizations across the state to fund first-...

A Sea of White Coats at the State House

“If any of us are going to have a medical emergency, I suppose this is the time,” we joked among ourselves. As staff from the Massachusetts Association of...

Step up for Lobby Day

Angie Liou, Chair of the MACDC Board On Thursday, May 25, MACDC will hold its first in-person Lobby Day in four years, and we could not be more excited! On Lobby Day,...

MACDC Response to SVB Collapse

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is significantly impacting MACDC's members who are working to build and preserve affordable housing to Massachusetts. As a...

Thoughts As I Clean My Office

As I start to pack up my office after nearly 30 years at MACDC, I have been thinking a lot about the past, present, and future of the CDC sector in Massachusetts. ...
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