{"id":101632,"date":"2025-08-22T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101632\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:50:07","slug":"mass-invests-31-5-million-in-public-housing-internet-through-mbi-arpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101632\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass. invests $31.5 million in public housing internet through MBI, ARPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GOC7LL5OZRH6ZKWYW7BSI66Q4U\">Westfield\u2019s public housing residents will be among those to benefit from a recent investment of $31.5 million from the Massachusetts Broadband Institute to increase internet access for affordable and public housing residents statewide, according to an announcement by the Healey-Driscoll administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"I6TRXEJL2FCSRMQVNFE4A3LHSU\">The Residential Retrofit Program is funded by the U.S. Treasury\u2019s Capital Projects Fund through the American Rescue Plan Act. The program prioritizes projects in federally designated Qualified Census Tracts and properties with high percentages of deed-restricted affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westfield\u2019s public housing residents will be among those to benefit from a recent investment of $31.5 million from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-101632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}