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Massachusetts budget features programs to support seniors, aging in place

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billion state budget for 2025, which features several provisions designed to assist the state’s senior residents with health care, food assistance and aging-in-place provisions like home-based care. We’re also tackling our biggest challenges by lowering household costs and improving transportation. Massachusetts Gov.

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HUD details funding, policy support for green homes and climate resilience

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HUD also published guides designed to assist with mobility improvements and decarbonization of existing transportation systems. The department said it aims to alert communities about important elements of post-disaster resilience that research has shown are often overlooked or less understood in the immediate wake of a disaster.

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AARP highlights needs for aging in place, walkable communities

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The post said that “improving access to home- and community-based services, such as transportation and adult day services” ranks highly on the organization’s advocacy priorities in the Hoosier State. “A In Indiana , for instance, aging in place is a central pillar of a recently published advocacy update.

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HUD allocates $472 million of CARES Act funding for low-income households

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.” Some of the eligible coronavirus-related activities covered under the funding are relocation of families to health units or other designated units for testing, hospitalization, or quarantine, or transportation to said locations for limited exposure.

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Boston suburb works to comply with new state multifamily construction law

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The law, which went into effect in early February, requires 177 communities served by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to eliminate barriers that could restrict the zoning and construction of multifamily housing units. In Washington state, Gov.

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To expand housing counseling services, HUD taps Zillow

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It’s expected that the implementation of this rule will enable increased accessibility for people who may face challenges with receiving such services in-person, with some cited challenges including linguistic, physical or geographic barriers, transportation costs, or who may have other obligations like childcare.

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Boston suburb’s housing battle with state echoes national issues

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As part of the broader community operating within the service area of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), the affluent Boston suburb of Milton — with a population of roughly 29,000 people — was directed to comply with a new state law requiring the construction of new multifamily housing units in areas served by public transit.

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