Massachusetts Towns Sued for Defying Housing Production Law (1)

Nine Massachusetts towns are facing a lawsuit from the state’s attorney general for failing to comply with a controversial housing production law passed five years ago to address a housing affordability crisis.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s (D) complaint against the towns of Dracut, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Holden, Marblehead, Middleton, Tewksbury, Wilmington, and Winthrop comes a little more than a year after the state’s Supreme Judicial Court ruling that compliance with the re-zoning measure is mandatory.

The law, called the MBTA Communities Act, requires towns served by the metro Boston transit system to re-zone a “district of reasonable size” to ...