Gov. Healey In Worcester To Tour Main South Affordable Housing

WORCESTER, MA — Gov. Maura Healey will stop in Worcester Monday as part of a push to highlight affordable housing developments either opening or under construction across the state.

Healey will use her tour on Monday to highlight the creation of a new Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, and a recent tax proposal that includes some relief for renters and senior homeowners.

Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll along with Mayor Joseph Petty and City Manager Eric Batista will tour the Grand Street Commons development in Main South. The Main South Community Development Corp. built the 48 new town homes along Grand Street and opened them to applicants last summer.

Healey is expected to tour the site around 12:15 p.m., according to her office.

Worcester — and Massachusetts as a whole — is experiencing a shortage of affordable housing options, with a deficit of about 163,000 units for extremely low-income people in the state, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

Worcester will be Healey's only stop Monday, but Driscoll will attend a ribbon cutting at the 2Life Communities Opus affordable senior housing development in Newton. After Worcester, Driscoll will head to Beverly for a ribbon cutting at a Harborlight Community Partners development.