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Even with several hundred rental units being built in New Bedford this year, and even with $5.1 billion becoming available statewide with the new Affordable Homes Act, housing remains a crisis that isn’t going away anytime soon.
What’s being done at the city and state level to combat it? State Sen. Mark Montigny, Reps. Chris Hendricks and Antonio Cabral, and New Bedford’s Office of Housing and Community Development Director Josh Amaral joined The Chat host Jack Spillane for an insightful hour-plus long discussion on one of the most pressing issues of the past few years.
As Amaral said, “We need to build all forms of housing,” and that included affordable and market rate. “If we’re not working with developers to make sure we’re getting units on line at all levels, we’re failing the residents of the city,” he said.
Thursday’s Chat was part of an ongoing series of talks on the housing crisis. Watch it here and check out last month’s Chat on the crisis.
The CHAT ARCHIVE
No easy way out of budget crisis
Experts Adam Chapdelaine and Phineas Baxandall joined Light columnist and host of The Chat Jack Spillane to examine the statewide crisis and New Bedford’s predicament: a $32 million budget deficit.
O’Leary, DeLoach, Furtado Jr. working together for New Bedford students
The leaders of the city’s public schools joined the conversation to discuss collaboration and working toward a common goal. Watch the entire Chat.
Mitchell on his goals for the city, the budget, and immigration enforcement
In an hour-long one-on-one with The Light, the mayor hit on everything from education to wind to police to standing up for New Bedford.