# Maura Healey's Second-Term Priorities

> Maura Healey's second term must tackle jobs, housing, and infrastructure amid economic pressures.
- Title: Maura Healey's Second-Term Priorities · The Boston Globe
- Summary: Maura Healey's second term must tackle jobs, housing, and infrastructure amid economic pressures.
- Keywords: maura healey, jobs, housing, infrastructure, massachusetts, governor, second term, economic policy, unemployment insurance, estate tax, affordable homes act, massachusetts dams
- Source: The Boston Globe — https://bostonglobe.com/2026/11/06/newsletters/healey-second-term-agenda-power-play
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- Topics: maura healey, jobs, housing, infrastructure, massachusetts, governor, second term, economic policy, unemployment insurance, estate tax, affordable homes act, massachusetts dams
## Jobs Growth Challenges
Job growth remains lackluster with employment not quite back to 2019 levels.
## Economic Development Bill
Healey shepherd one economic development bill in 2024 and prods lawmakers to finish another.
## Competitiveness Council
Healey convened a competitiveness council led by Dan Kenary and Mark Nunnelly with recommendations due by year's end.
## Business-Friendly Reforms
Business groups push for tax reforms and estate tax changes after the Legislature passed one package in 2.023.
## Unemployment Insurance Fund
The state’s unemployment insurance fund could go into the red by early 2028.
## Housing Affordability
Four-fifths of Massachusetts Business Roundtable members say reducing housing costs is a top priority.
## Affordable Homes Act
Lawmakers need to pass an eco-dev bill to allow churches to build more apartments or open single-family zones for duplexes.
## Transportation Challenges
Phil Eng serves as MBTA director and interim transportation secretary with a $509,000 salary.
## Infrastructure Projects
Healey must pick a new Mass. Pike service plaza operator and award a multibillion-dollar commuter rail contract.
## Mayor Michelle Wu
Healey and Mayor Wu’s relationship is improving but still rocky with real estate developers.
## Federal Credit Proposal
A federal credit would provide $1,700 per taxpayer for donating to scholarship-granting charities.
## Legal Sea Foods
Legal Sea Foods will start selling chowder in supermarkets using its in-house recipe.
## Fenway Park Marathon
Dan Koh won the Fenway Park Marathon in June with a time of 3 hours and 30 minutes.
## Conclusion
Healey faces ongoing economic and infrastructure challenges in her second term.
## Key takeaway

Maura Healey faces job growth, housing affordability, and infrastructure challenges in her second term.