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Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

2024 Massachusetts Affordable Housing Bill Includes Provisions Intended to Promote Residential Housing Construction: What You Need...

The Massachusetts Affordable Homes Act (H. 4977), signed into law on August 6, 2024, includes provisions intended to promote residential housing construction. These provisions: (1) require municipalities to permit accessory...more

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Sustainable Development and Land Use Update 11.09.23

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The Biden administration is launching a multi-agency effort to encourage states and cities to convert more empty office buildings into housing units, with billions of federal dollars available to help spur such transitions....more

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Critical State Housing Laws Approved by Governor Newsom

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Governor Newsom recently approved multiple state housing bills passed by the State Assembly and Senate. The following is a summary of a few of the key bills that are expected to benefit multi-family, mixed-income housing...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: September 2023

A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - These three new blocks of housing are among S.F.’s best. They’re for the formerly homeless (S.F. Chronicle): Exploring three recently...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Hotel and Office Conversions — an Update

Since January 2021, multiple proposals were introduced in the New York State legislature to permit underutilized hotel and/or office buildings, many of which have become financially distressed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

The Governor’s Proposed Commercial Conversion Initiative

On Jan. 19, 2021, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo proposed an amendment to Section 277 of the New York State Multiple Dwelling Law (MDL) that would “authorize flexibility in zoning to address high commercial vacancy rates and...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Everyone Likes a Good Deal, but are Land Bank Properties a Good One?

According to ATTOM Data Solutions, as of the end of the third quarter of 2018, there were nearly 1.5 million vacant single-family homes in the United States, representing approximately 1.52 percent of all homes nationwide....more

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