Linkage Increase Signed Into Law
Last month, the City signed a 42 percent increase in Boston’s Linkage fees into law. The Linkage Program requires large scale commercial developments of more than 100,000 square feet in Boston to pay into funds that support the creation of affordable housing and workforce development. The increase will raise the current fees to $15.39 per square foot, of which $13.00 will be dedicated to affordable housing and $2.39 will be dedicated to workforce training. The funds collected through Linkage are administered by the Neighborhood Housing Trust through the Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) and the Neighborhood Jobs Trust through the Mayor s Office of Workforce Development. Since 2014, the Linkage program has generated over $80 million to support affordable housing and job training from new development.