Massachusetts Senate has agreed to legislation aimed at preventing the continuation of so-called home equity theft. An amendment added to the fiscal 2025 budget would eliminate a municipality's ability to take a property owner's earned equity beyond what is owed in unpaid taxes and "reasonably incurred expenses."
Gov. Maura T. Healey late last week filled out the membership of the State Ballot Law Commission, adding two private sector lobbyists to the panel that could rule on challenges to ballot access ahead of this fall's elections.
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BOSTON — Families may start getting kicked out of the state’s emergency shelter system on Sept. 1, and providers who thought families had until next spring are feeling blindsided.
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