Gov. Charlie Baker gives the keynote speech at the 2018 Margaret C. Carlson Realtor Day on Beacon Hill.

There will be no pied-a-terre in Boston for Gov. Charlie Baker. No Western Massachusetts hideout, either.

The governor, who lives with his wife in their turn-of-the-20th century Swampscott home, has no plans to invest his new $65,000 housing stipend in a property or rent closer to the office, according to his staff.

The housing allowance is a first for a Massachusetts governor after the Legislature, in its first act of the two-year session in 2017, voted through a package of pay raises for public officials, including the governor, that included a stipend for housing.

The law states that a governor “shall receive $65,000 annually for expenses related to housing,” and the allowance was intended by lawmakers to make the office of governor a more attractive position and to eliminate any barriers to running, such as finances or geography.

For Baker, it will simply be added to his salary.

Baker rejected the housing allowance and a raise in 2017 and 2018 after his veto of the bill sent to him by House and Senate Democrats was overridden. The governor, however, said during his re-election campaign that he would accept the full pay package to start his second term, which included a bump in pay from $151,800 to $185,000.

“That’s what it is – if the voters are kind enough to give me a second term, I’ll just take it because that’s what it is,” Baker said during the final gubernatorial debate.

The Special Advisory Commission Regarding the Compensation of Public Officials in 2014 concluded that the governor “deserves and requires adequate housing” to perform his or her officials duties. That report became the foundation of the bill that House and Senate Democrats wrote to start the session in 2017.

In addition to the high cost of living in Boston, the commission noted that the governor lacks a property like the Parkman House, adjacent to the State House, that the mayor of Boston can use to entertain or conduct public business and ceremonial functions. Massachusetts and Idaho are the only states that do not offer their governors an official residence.