Four former housing and economic development secretaries plan to join the governor for a press conference Wednesday afternoon to highlight Baker’s bill (H.3507) and talk about negative economic impacts from the state’s housing crisis.
Lawmakers, a former top Baker administration and city manager and a one-time lieutenant governor joined advocates Monday to call for an increase in funding for vocational-technical education and passage of a bill to expand access to those programs.
Ash, a former Chelsea city manager who has led the economic development secretariat since Baker took office in 2015, has been pursuing the top job at the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and in 2016 was one of three finalists for the Cambridge city manager job.
