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Presentation from MAHA's Shelley Goehring about using Community Preservation Act (CPA) funds to further affordable housing goals in your community. Presented at event in Medway on Tuesday, March 31, 2015.

Funds used in many ways, including downpayment assistance, 47-unit rental effort

CHATHAM --- This Cape Cod community has turned to the CPA to help provide housing for a workforce that is competing with vacationers buying second homes.

Preserving, creating affordability is Newton's niche; new housing has been funded too

NEWTON --- This well-to-do city west of Boston has used CPA to create affordability within its existing housing stock and to help first-time homebuyers purchase homes in the city.

Using funds to identify, compete, purchase land in the marketplace

WESTPORT --- This town in southeastern Mass. used CPA funds to identify real estate opportunities and then purchased the land for affordable housing development.

WESTFORD - Using $250,000 to prepare a site for housing is one of several ways that this town northwest of Boston has used CPA funds for housing.