Help homebuyers by providing additional mortgage assistance
Provide additional mortgage assistance to help homebuyers.
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Housing is a Human Right Immediate Help - Ban private equity firms from scooping up homes and driving up real estate costs - Help homebuyers by providing additional mortgage assistance - Protect renters by strengthening the ability to negotiate rents - Protections for food assistance so families aren’t forced to choose between paying rent and putting food on the table.
Fundamentally, we need to address basic supply and demand by increasing density in places people want to live and improving transportation options to match housing and jobs. This means reforming rigid zoning laws, eliminating arbitrary restrictions like minimum parking requirements, and prioritizing development centered around transit hubs so more people can access alternatives to our congested highways.
The House moved forward 10 important community projects that will improve the lives of people in northeast Massachusetts. These projects will protect our environment, improve public safety, and increase access to healthcare, public transportation and affordable housing in our communities... $700,000 for Harborlight Community Partners to support new affordable housing development in Beverly.
Assessments
The promise specifically concerned providing additional mortgage assistance to help homebuyers. The available evidence shows Moulton advocated housing affordability and secured/advanced funding for affordable housing development, but it does not show that he delivered a new or expanded mortgage-assistance program for homebuyers. The cited affordable-housing project funding is related to housing supply, not mortgage assistance, and the official housing materials emphasize zoning, density, and transit-oriented development rather than the promised mortgage aid.