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How the Historic Tax Credit is reshaping Massachusetts communities

A 170-year-old industrial building that helped power New England's Industrial Revolution has been converted into 86 apartments in Lawrence, with most units designated as affordable housing, thanks to the Federal Historic Tax Credit program.

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