City Council go on record accepting the attached provisions of Chapter 162 of the Acts of 2015, the same being ‘AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE TAX STATUS OF CERTAIN LAND OWNED BY A HOUSING AUTHORITY WITHIN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE.”

How it started

Jan 11, 2016 · Proposed by Councillor E. Denise Simmons: a statement of the Council’s position, not a request for action.

What happened

Jan 11, 2016 · ✅ Adopted: the Council approved it (Order adopted)

Present and voting at this meeting (9)

Craig A. Kelley
David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
Nadeem Mazen
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

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Be It enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives in General Court

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. As used in this act, the following words shall have the following meanings: - "Cambridge housing authority", a public body politic and corporate established within the city of Cambridge pursuant to section 3 of chapter 121B of the General Laws. of chapter 1218 of the General Laws or any

Notwithstanding section 16

other general or special law relative to the tax status of certain land owned by the cambridge housing authority within the city of Cambridge, where the Cambridge housing authority sells of transfers ownership of buildings or other by land owned structures on it in the city of Cambridge to an entity established by it for the purpose of rehabilitation, repair, development or redevelopment of low and moderate income housing in the city of Cambridge undertaken or assisted pursuant to state or federal legislation or resources, including a state of federal low income housing tax credit program, such land, shall be buildings or other structures deemed to be public property used for essential governmental purposes and shall be exempt from taxation and subject to the payment in lieu of taxes as provided in said section 16 of said chapter 121B; provided, however, that such land is owned by the Cambridge housing authority and the land, buildings or other structures are used for the purposes of providing low and moderate income housing.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. • 2025.

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 11, 2016