Housing News
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Blanchard School housing project receives final fi...Dec 01, 2017/
The Virginia A. Blanchard School has been vacant for 15 years, but after the last piece of financing fell into place Friday, it should see new occupants - renters in affordable apartments - by early 2019. The final fu...
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CCRI Supports More Than 500 Housing Units For Vete...Nov 30, 2017/
Veterans in Massachusetts and across the country are in need of housing and access to supportive services. MassHousing is partnering with a number of organizations to help increase the availability of quality affordable ...
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Chinatown Development Includes 51 Affordable Condo...Nov 30, 2017/
A 51-unit development will provide homeownership units selling for under $200,000 in Boston’s Chinatown, a neighborhood under pressure from gentrification and conversion of apartments into short-term rentals. Asian ...
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Ludlow Mill Redeveloped As 75-Unit Mixed-Income Co...Nov 14, 2017/
A $19.3 million redevelopment of a 110-year-old historic mill in Ludlow has generated 75 new units of mixed-income senior housing that are already 100 percent leased. The Residences at Mill 10 contains 63 one-bedroom ...
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Northampton affordable housing apartment complex &...Nov 01, 2017/$19M affordable housing project coming to Northamp...Nov 01, 2017/
The Valley Community Development is investing $19 million to turn the former Northampton Lumber Company property into 55 affordable housing units and commercial space. “So the majority of the units are affordable to...
Multifamily Developer Breaks Ground On ‘Lean’ ...Oct 30, 2017/Upgrades Set To Begin At Fenway ComplexOct 16, 2017/Longtime renters in the Boston’s Fenway neighborhood have felt the squeeze from rising rents and conversion of apartments into off-campus housing. The acquisition of the Burbank Gardens property by the Fenway Commun...
Boston Fund to Help Non-profit Developers Compete ...Oct 16, 2017/Boston’s Mayor Martin J. Walsh recognizes the increasing need to provide affordable housing options in the city in order to preserve the d...
Boston housing development honored for affordable ...Oct 04, 2017/Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced that the Mosaic on the Riverway, a mixed-income 145-unit residential bui...
Boston to Help Affordable Housing Developers Rethi...Oct 03, 2017/In a market where buildable land goes quickly to private developers paying cash — or investors who sit on the property and wait for its value to rise — nonprofit builders are at a definite disadvantage. Boston Mayor ...
City, nonprofits turn focus on affordable housingOct 03, 2017/It’s no secret to agents, buyers and sellers in Boston that the city’s housing market is hot — sometimes a little too hot. With scarce inventory and increasing prices, many people find themselves sitting on the sid...