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The bill includes funding for various health, environmental, technological and housing initiatives.

BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday signed a $4 billion spending plan that will put to work a portion of the state's direct federal aid from the American Rescue Plan...

Massachusetts lawmakers finalized a compromise bill to spend $4 billion in federal COVID-19 relief and state budget surplus funds.

Ashely Stolba, undersecretary for community development in the Executive Office for Housing and Economic Development, speaks to the annual meeting of the BRPC and Berkshire County...

How the Baker administration wants to use COVID-19 relief funds to close the racial homeownership gap "Its almost reparations." Elise Amendola / AP Email Massachusetts has one of the largest racial homeownership gaps in the country. And in the midst of the ongoing debate with State House leaders over who gets to spend roughly $5 billion in recent direct federal COVID-19 relief funds to the state, Gov. Charlie Baker is pushing to immediately use some of the money to address that gap in the hope...

Gov. Charlie Baker is expected to be in Haverhill this afternoon to discuss the CommonWealth Builder Program, economic recovery and American Rescue Plan Act money. Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Housing and Economic Development Secretary Michael Kennealy, Administration and Finance Secretary Michael J. Heffernan and MassHousing Executive Director Chrystal Kornegay visit 430 Washington St. Back […]