Massachusetts is attempting to dig out of a massive housing crisis. The state’s top lawyer wants to help.

Source: Boston Globe

AG launching legal team to ensure cities and towns follow state housing laws.

Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has ramped up warnings to cities and towns trying to skirt a new state law designed to jumpstart local housing production, last month sending a letter to officials in Milton saying that if voters there decide to defy the rules, she may very well sue the town.

Her office, she said in a statement, “will do its job by enforcing the law.”

Now Campbell is doubling down, throwing her office fully behind the efforts of Governor Maura Healey’s administration to stem the state’s deep housing crisis by making plans to more strictly enforce housing laws that some local officials have skirted for decades.