Central, Harvard Square housing benefits from governor’s $73M announcement

Cambridge Day -- Report regarding ceremony for Governor Patrick to sign “An Act Financing the Production and Preservation of Housing for the Low and Moderate Income Residents” into law. The act "provides $1.4 billion parceled out over five years for capital funding programs that rehabilitate and modernize such housing in 24 projects across Massachusetts – creating 1,145 units of housing and an estimated 1,935 construction jobs." State Rep. Jay Livingstone attended the ceremony, saying he was “pleased by the investment that the Patrick administration is making in affordable housing here in Cambridge and across the commonwealth. I look forward to finding more ways to increase our affordable housing stock to start addressing the overwhelming needs that our citizens have for affordable housing.” Read the story.