H4318 • 2025

An Act authorizing the town of Harwich affordable housing trust to provide for the creation of attainable housing

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Sponsor: Luddy, Hadley
Last action: 2026-04-06
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act authorizing the town of Harwich affordable housing trust to provide for the creation of attainable housing

An Act authorizing the town of Harwich affordable housing trust to provide for the creation of attainable housing By Representative Luddy of Orleans and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act authorizing the town of Harwich affordable housing trust to provide for the creation of attainable housing By Representative Luddy of Orleans and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
4318) of Hadley Luddy and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Harwich affordable housing trust to provide for the creation of attainable housing.
Housing.
[Local Approval Received.] Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill History

2026-04-06 House
Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
2026-04-06 House
Rules suspended
2026-04-06 House
Read second and ordered to a third reading
2026-03-12 House
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2026-01-15 House
Reporting date extended to Wednesday, March 18, 2026
2025-11-10 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 11/10/2025 from 12:00 PM-12:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
2025-07-28 Senate
Senate concurred
2025-07-24 House
Referred to the committee on Housing

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the town of Harwich affordable housing trust to provide for the creation of attainable housing
By Representative Luddy of Orleans and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4318) of Hadley Luddy and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Harwich affordable housing trust to provide for the creation of attainable housing. Housing. [Local Approval Received.]
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill H.4318

SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 140 of the Harwich Affordable Housing Trust Bylaw is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:-

"C. The purpose of the Harwich Affordable Housing Trust Fund is to provide for the creation and preservation of affordable housing in Harwich for the benefit of low- and moderate- income households, for the creation and preservation of attainable housing, as defined in section 4 of this chapter, and for the funding of community housing, as defined under section 55C of chapter 44 of the General Laws."

SECTION 2. Said chapter 140 of the Harwich Affordable Housing Bylaw is hereby amended by adding the following section:-

"§140-4. Definition of Attainable Housing. For the purposes of this Bylaw, the term "attainable housing" shall mean housing that is not restricted to occupancy by low or moderate income households, and that may also include housing subject to maximum income limits to be occupied by households with gross income greater than 80 per cent but not more than 200 per cent of the area median household income as most recently determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, adjusted for household size."

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage, provided, however, that the General Court may make clerical or editorial changes of form only to the bill, unless the Select Board approve amendments to the bill before enactment by the General Court; and provided further that the Select Board is hereby authorized to approve amendments which shall be within the scope of the general public objectives of this petition, and to further authorize the Select Board to approve the final language of any such special legislation or to take any other action relative thereto.

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