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	"author_name": "Progressive Mass ",
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	"title": "Let&#x27;s Tackle our Housing Crisis with the Yes in My Backyard Bill ",
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	"description": "Massachusetts faces a growing affordable housing crisis. We can tout our great quality of life on index after index, but if people can&#x27;t afford to live here, it doesn&#x27;t mean much. To rent the average 2-bedroom apartment in Massachusetts requires an income equal to $37.97 per hour. Home ownership has become increasingly out of reach, as the state’s median home price has passed $600,000. The unaffordability of housing in Massachusetts isn&#x27;t inevitable. It&#x27;s a result of a long legacy of exclusionary zoning that has disproportionately harmed working-class and BIPOC residents. The Yes in My Backyard Bill (H.1379) would require multifamily zoning and remove costly parking mandates around public transportation, encouraging dense, transit-oriented development that is good for climate and good for communities. It would also expedite the process of converting unused state-owned land into affordable housing or vacant commercial properties into multifamily housing, among many other steps.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/yes-in-my-backyard-bill"
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