The 40B Record

• Massachusetts ranks 49th in national housing affordability after 39 years of 40B developments
• Fails to produce enough affordable housing (about 3 units per town per year)
• Forces growth of mostly high density, unaffordable homes
• Wastes your tax dollars to subsidize upscale new development
• Causes skyrocketing land prices & higher taxes
• Eliminates open space
• Disregards the environment
• Stresses infrastructure and the limits of town services
• Exhausts community resources like water and energy
• Violates Massachusetts' Sustainable Development Principles
• Burdens municipalities as an unfunded state mandate

40B is nothing more than a tool being used by developers to extract huge profits at the expense of our communities.

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