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Community Development
The Community Program division of the Marlborough Community Development Authority has the following programs:
- Community Development Block Grant Programs
- Neighborhood Stabilization Program
- Local Initiative Program
- Oversight of 40B Affordable Housing
- Critical Home Loan Repair Program
- Infrastructure Improvements funded by CDBG
- Community Development Strategy
The community programs operated by the MCDA are funded by proceeds from prior programs such as funds from CDBG-funded mortgages and from income generated from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
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Chad T. Carter
Executive Director
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Jaime Varas
Director of Operations & Leased Housing
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Omarylis Miranda-Rivera
Program Manager
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Justin Bates
Finance & Administration Manager
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Maria Torres
Housing Clerk
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Ryan Keane
Bookkeeper & Administrative Assistant
Programs
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Affordable Housing Opportunities
When a Local Initiative Program (LIP) Unit is ready to sell, the State makes sure it is sold to another affordable individual or family.
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Chapter 40B Monitoring
Chapter 40B is a program that requires all cities and towns in the Commonwealth created in 1969 to allow developers to override local zoning bylaws in order to increase the stock of affordable housing in municipalities where less than 10% of the housing stock is defined as affordable.
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Community Development Block Grant Info
The Community Development Block Grant is a flexible program that provides communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs.
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Community Development Strategy
The Community Development Strategy identifies Community Development Block Grant project priorities over a 3-year period.
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Critical Home Repair Program
The Critical Home Loan Repair program offers no-interest loans to income-qualified homeowners so they can make critical repairs to their homes.
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Local Initiative Program
The Local Initiative Program (LIP) is a Massachusetts program and was established in 1990 in response to a report by a special legislative commission which found that state law defined low and moderate-income housing as "any housing subsidized by the federal or state government under any program to assist the construction of low or moderate-income housing."
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Marlborough Housing Rehab Applications
The City of Marlborough, through the Marlborough Community Development Authority, is accepting new applications for the Marlborough Housing Rehabilitation Program (MHRP).
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Neighborhood Stabilization Program
In 2009, Congress established the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) for the purpose of stabilizing communities that had suffered from foreclosures and abandonment.