Affordable Housing Trust

Affordable Housing Trust Charge

At the Eastham Annual Town Meeting held on May 5, 2008, a motion was made and seconded by the Board of Selectmen to accept Article 32; G. L. c.44, Section 55C, and establish a Municipal Affordable Housing Trust to be known as the Eastham Affordable Housing Trust Fund whose purpose shall be to provide for the creation and preservation of affordable housing for the benefit of low and moderate-income households, and to implement said Trust Fund, to vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute a Declaration of Trust and Certificate of Trust for the Eastham Affordable Housing Trust which Declaration of Trust shall provide for five-member Board of Trustees to be appointed by the Board of Selectmen for staggered terms not to exceed two years, of whom at least one member shall be a Selectman; said Trustees shall have the full range of powers and duties specified in G. L. c.44, §55C. 

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