Names the continuing-eligibility forms BOE-278-OCC and BOE-278-SCC, which are filed with the Board rather than the assessor and are separate from the annual BOE-267-A claim.

States the rule the statute leaves implicit: a limited partnership pathway property 'must have government financing or low-income housing tax credits to qualify', and names BOE-277-L1 as the SCC claim form and BOE-277-SF as the finding sheet.

13,435 bytes as exported text, sha256 8c80b3ba6d3ae4b165ed875daace034eaee324bf57ffd41e9223c62a42139b61, fetched 2026-08-29. Weighted as persuasive rather than binding on the document's own instruction: 'This 2024 Inclusionary Zoning FAQs page shall serve as a clarifying supplement, but not replacement for any of the text of Article 79 of the Zoning Code. Should Article 79 be amended in whole or in part, policy reading and enforcement shall default to the text of Article 79.' Several obligations encoded from it have NO counterpart in the Article 79 text -- the voucher set-aside marketing duty and its good-faith-effort fallback at 100 percent of AMI and the Small Area Fair Market Rent price; the 15 percent Group-2 requirement and the Housing Navigator advertising duty; and the operational IDP/IZ cutover tests keyed to Small Project Review Application, Project Notification Form, ISD permit and Zoning Board of Appeal filing dates. Those are recorded as the agency's reading, not as zoning text. The document also carries an Inclusionary Timeline from 1999 to 2024 which is the only located source for several policy facts, including the 2009 creation of the asset limit for eligible households, the 2014 enhancement enforcing that homeownership units may never be rented by developers, and the 2017 adoption of the 15 percent Group-2 policy.

Added 2026-08-31. Cited for one definition only: 'Area Median Income (AMI). The midpoint of a specific area's income distribution. The AMI applicable to Boston is calculated on an annual basis by the Boston Redevelopment Authority using data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). AMI, or a percentage thereof, is used to determine the maximum income that a given household size may receive before becoming ineligible for an Inclusionary Development Unit.' The BPDA pre-adoption draft's 'Additions to Article 2' page carries the same definition with 'BRA' for 'the Boston Redevelopment Authority' and without the 'U.S.' before 'Department of Housing and Urban Development'; no substantive difference. The other definitions the draft proposed to add -- Inclusionary Development Fund, Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) Unit, Income-Restricted Unit, Required square footage, Usable Square Footage -- were not individually re-verified against the codified Article 2 this session and no rule cites them. Article 2 is a large article (about 113,000 characters as rendered) and only the AMI entry was read closely. Held as a source distinct from src.ma.boston.article_79_codified because it has a different amendment status: Article 79 has no uncodified amendment outstanding and Article 2 has one. A SECOND FILE ACCOMPANIES THIS ONE: data/sources/_pending_boston_recheck_replacement.json holds the corrected FULL record for src.ma.boston.article_79, which already exists in data/sources/sources.json and must be OVERWRITTEN there rather than appended. It could not be carried in pending_boston_recheck.json: scripts/validate.py errors on a duplicate source_id across data/sources/*.json, and scripts/integrate_pending.py silently SKIPS ids already present, so a replacement staged in the ordinary way would have looked applied while being dropped. The underscore prefix is this repo's own marker for a file that is not a corpus record set; validate.py and stats.py skip it by design. Do not forget it.

THE ENACTED ARTICLE. Added 2026-08-31 to replace src.ma.boston.article_79 -- the BPDA pre-adoption redline -- as the authority behind Boston's Article 79 rules. All eleven sections were read in full this session: 79-1 Statement of Purpose; 79-2 Applicability (seven-unit threshold, three exemptions); 79-3 Inclusionary Zoning Zones A, B and C; 79-4 Required Inclusionary Zoning Unit Contributions (Table A for rental and homeownership, small and Large Project/PDA, on-site and off-site; Partial Units; Off Site Unit Requirements); 79-5 Unit Characteristics; 79-6 Length of Restriction; 79-7 Payment in Lieu of Units ($675/$460/$365 per sf rental, $850/$500/$300 homeownership partial); 79-8 Payments into the Inclusionary Development Fund; 79-9 Transition Rule; 79-10 Enforcement; 79-11 Severability. DIFFERENCES FROM THE DRAFT WE HELD, established section by section on 2026-08-31 and recorded here so the comparison does not have to be made again. THREE ARE SUBSTANTIVE. (1) 79-6 Length of Restriction: the draft says 'for a period of AT LEAST thirty (30) years'; the enacted text says 'for a period of thirty (30) years'. The words 'at least' are not in the code. (2) 79-8: the enacted text makes the first 50 percent of an Inclusionary Development Fund payment due 'at the issuance of a FULL building permit'; the draft says 'a building permit'. (3) 79-9 Transition Rule: the draft strikes the words 'Covered Project' and inserts nothing, leaving 'any for which an application ... has been filed'; the enacted text reads 'any DEVELOPMENT WITH A RESIDENTIAL COMPONENT for which an application ... has been filed', which is broader than Covered Project and is what actually grandfathers pre-October-2024 filings. THE REST IS WORDING. Table A's category headings change ('IDP/IZ Only Projects; Small Projects pursuant to Article 80-E' becomes 'Covered Projects with 7 or more Dwelling Units, including Small Projects (Article 80E)'), 'units' is rendered 'Dwelling Units' throughout 79-4, '(for a minimum of two units)' becomes '(minimum of two units)', the off-site cross-reference moves from '79-4.C' to 'Section 79-4C.4', 'half mile' is hyphenated, 79-10 drops 'the City of Boston' before 'Mayor's Office of Housing', and the Article 2 AMI definition expands 'BRA' and adds 'U.S.' before 'Department of Housing and Urban Development'. EVERY PERCENTAGE, AMI AVERAGE, AMI MAXIMUM AND PAYMENT-IN-LIEU RATE IS UNCHANGED. ONE OPEN QUESTION THE DIFF SETTLED IN THE CORPUS'S FAVOUR: four rules previously recorded 'drafting defects' in Table A -- an 18 percent square-footage floor inside a 20 percent requirement, and a 17 percent floor inside the homeownership 20 percent. Those provisos are STRUCK THROUGH in the redline and appear nowhere in the codified table. They were removed text read as enacted text. TWO TRANSCRIPTION ARTEFACTS IN THIS SOURCE, recorded rather than repaired: the rental small-project table header renders as 'Rental - Covered Projects with 7 or ore Dwelling Units, including Small Projects (Article 80E) and not Planned Development Areas (Article 80C)' -- 'ore' for 'more', and omitting the 'but not Large Project (Article 80B)' clause that the parallel homeownership header carries; and both homeownership rows end 'not more than half are up to 100% of AML', where AML is plainly AMI. Neither was resolved against the enrolled text of Text Amd. No. 466, which was not located. NO SHA256 IS RECORDED. There is no stable artifact to hash: what curl retrieves is the application shell, not the article, so a hash of this url would certify nothing and would never move when the law does. A SECOND FILE ACCOMPANIES THIS ONE: data/sources/_pending_boston_recheck_replacement.json holds the corrected FULL record for src.ma.boston.article_79, which already exists in data/sources/sources.json and must be OVERWRITTEN there rather than appended. It could not be carried in pending_boston_recheck.json: scripts/validate.py errors on a duplicate source_id across data/sources/*.json, and scripts/integrate_pending.py silently SKIPS ids already present, so a replacement staged in the ordinary way would have looked applied while being dropped. The underscore prefix is this repo's own marker for a file that is not a corpus record set; validate.py and stats.py skip it by design. Do not forget it.

Sections used: 9-13-3(a)(1) (twenty-five percent of total dwelling units), (a)(2) (for-sale pricing at 120 percent AMI for townhouses and detached units, 100 percent for all other types), (a)(3) (rental split: eighty percent low/moderate, twenty percent at no greater than fifty percent AMI), (a)(5) (city manager may annually adjust the percentages by rule), (a)(6) (rounding at 0.5), (b) (scope), (c) (income eligibility required), (d) (deed restriction required in a form approved by the city manager, recorded with the county recorder), (e) (good faith marketing required each time a unit is rented or sold), (g) (permanently affordable housing agreement and restrictive covenants approved BEFORE a building permit application is eligible to be submitted), (h) (owner residency); 9-13-6 (quality, size, amenities, and housing inspections at the developer's cost); 9-13-7 (proportional unit types, ownership type and bedroom mix); 9-13-8 (even distribution, concurrency of construction and of marketing); 9-13-10 (cash-in-lieu, off-site, land dedication, alternative compliance); 9-13-11 (rebuilt units); 9-13-12 (for-sale programme requirements, including the 120-day marketing period, the five-year owner-occupancy precondition to renting, the one-year-in-seven rental cap, the thirty-day minimum tenancy and the resale price restriction); 9-13-13 (rental programme requirements); 9-13-15 (takings adjustment and administrative hearing); 9-13-17 (periodic report to City Council). THE CHAPTER APPLIES REGARDLESS OF DEVELOPMENT SIZE: 9-13-3(b) reaches 'any new development which applies for a development approval or building permit for a dwelling unit', and the City's own page says 'Regardless of size, all developments within the city that add housing units are subject to the requirements of inclusionary housing.'

Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 776, Sec. 1 (SB 267), effective 1 January 2024. Subdivision (p)(1) defines source of income and names Section 8 vouchers and HUD-VASH vouchers expressly.

The whole California state low-income housing tax credit. Read in full 2026-08-29. The provisions the corpus cites, and why they matter: § 17058(h) modifies the section 42(i)(1) compliance period to THIRTY consecutive taxable years - the longest state-credit compliance period found in this program and double the federal fifteen; § 17058(e)(1) modifies the credit period to four taxable years rather than ten, so the credit is fully claimed eleven years before the state compliance period is half over; § 17058(i) states that section 42(j) recapture "shall not be applicable" and substitutes a recorded regulatory agreement, whose mandatory terms are enumerated at (i)(1)-(8) including a term not less than the compliance period, county recording, named state and local enforcers, tenant enforcement as third-party beneficiaries, incorporation of section 42 as modified, notification to CTCAC of an IRS section 42(g) determination, an assignment of rents as security, and remedies on uncured default running to possession and receivership; § 17058(d)(1) and (3) cap the annual cash distribution at 8 percent of the lesser of owner equity or twenty percent of adjusted basis and require excess cash to be applied to reduce rents or increase the number of rent-restricted units; § 17058(q) creates a statutory market in the credit with an irrevocable sale election, an 80-percent price floor, a ten-day CTCAC reporting duty, a bar on selling a credit already claimed, and retention of all obligations by the original taxpayer; § 17058(b)(2)(E) makes the federal 130-percent basis adjustment and the state credit alternatives rather than a stack, subject to carve-outs. § 17058(t) is the sunset clause and it is open-ended: the section "shall remain in effect on and after December 1, 1990, for as long as Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to low-income housing credit, remains in effect."

Subdivision (g) is the low-income rental housing exemption. Subdivision (o) makes the Board of Equalization responsible for administering the exemption except where the law places responsibility with the county assessor. Subdivisions (l), (m) and (n) date three earlier amendment waves (Stats. 2004 Ch. 354; Stats. 2016 Ch. 836; Stats. 2018 Ch. 694) to lien dates on and after 1 January 2005, 2017 and 2019 respectively.

Section 237 is a separate exemption, not a subdivision of the welfare exemption, but sections 254, 270 and 271 were amended to name 'tribal housing' alongside 'welfare', so it runs on the same claim and late-claim machinery.