News Archive

  • Baker-Polito Administration Awards $6 Million for ...
    Department of Early Education and Care, Executive Office of Education / Dec 19, 2019

    The Baker-Polito Administration and the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) today announced $6 million in grant awards for facility improvements at early education and ...

  • YMCA Cape Cod gets $1M grant for child care center
    Cape Cod Times / Dec 19, 2019

    The Hyannis Village Marketplace will be home to a new early education center this fall with help from a $1 million capital grant the YMCA Cape Cod received from the Baker-Polito administration. ...

  • YMCA Cape Cod To Receive $1 Million Grant for New ...
    CapeCodToday.com / Dec 18, 2019

    On Thursday December 19th, Early Education and Care Commissioner Samantha Aigner-Treworgy; Senator Julian Cyr, and Representatives Will Crocker, David Vieira and Tim Whelan; and YMCA Cape Cod P...

  • Far Fewer LIHTC Units Are at Risk of Losing Afford...
    Banker & Tradesman / Dec 16, 2019

    Far Fewer LIHTC Units Are at Risk of Losing Affordability than Predicted Four Key Factors Mean Potential Loss Is Much Less than 15,000 Predicted By Roger Herzog and Bill Brauner Special to Banker & Tradesman ...

  • MassHousing Commits $7.9 Million in Financing for ...
    Boston Real Estate Times / Dec 11, 2019

    MassHousing has committed $7.9 million in affordable housing financing to the non-profit The Neighborhood Developers (TND) for the construction of the 571 Revere Street in Revere, MA. The MassH...

  • Child Care of the Berkshires Ready for Next Renova...
    iBerkshires / Dec 10, 2019

    Child Care of the Berkshires took a moment Friday to mark the end of the first phase of its $1.75 million renovation — and the start of the second. It's been a long journey, said President an...

  • Cost of early child care is unsustainable
    The Boston Globe / Dec 05, 2019

    Two recent articles (“In academia, a caste system for parents,” Page A1, Dec. 1; “Poor workers struggling with a child-care debt trap,” Page A1, Dec. 2) demonstrate that parents at ever...

  • City approves supportive housing complex for homel...
    The Boston Globe / Nov 15, 2019

    A major effort to house Boston’s homeless took an important step forward Thursday night. The Boston Planning & Development Agency board approved plans for a 202-unit apartment building on Was...

  • Springfield’s Educare Facility Is State-Of-The-A...
    Business West / Nov 12, 2019

    Nikki Burnett says Springfield’s Old Hill neighborhood and those surrounding it certainly need the gleaming new $14 million Educare facility constructed next door to the Elias Brookings Elementa...

  • YWCA unveils Under One Roof project
    South Coast Today / Nov 08, 2019

    The YWCA cut the ribbon for its “Under One Roof” project on Friday, showing off the extension of its building, containing residential housing and after school programming. ...

  • Baker-Polito Administration Announces $1.73 Millio...
    Massachusetts Clean Energy Center / Nov 06, 2019

    The Baker-Polito Administration today announced $1.73 million in awards to support energy efficient new construction for affordable housing developments in six cities and towns built to Passive Ho...

  • Some Boston neighborhoods face severe shortage of ...
    The Boston Globe / Nov 05, 2019

    The chasm between supply and potential demand for child care is so wide across much of Boston that in some neighborhoods, there aren’t enough seats for roughly half the children, according to a new ...