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Today, the Department of Housing and Community Development Undersecretary, Chrystal Kornegay, joined Congressman Bill Keating, Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH), the Housing Assistance Corporation of Cape Cod (HA...

The House of Hope celebrated a milestone expansion on Tuesday that has nearly doubled the number of homeless families it can serve. The nonprofit organization has opened a new 31-family property at 520 Fletcher St., w...

This fall, the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership — a nonprofit and the state’s largest regional provider of rental-housing voucher assistance — will get a new home of its own: a vacant two-acre parcel formerl...

The stately 10,000-square-foot red brick mansion at 38 S. Sixth St. in New Bedford is a shell of its former self. On the outside, scaffolding flanks the Federal-Greek Revival and plywood remains on what were the home�...

Massachusetts preserved more than 6,000 units of affordable rental housing in 2016, according to a statement released yesterday by the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC), the public-private, co...

Massachusetts is a national leader in affordable housing by creating a system that provides reliable capital funds to affordable housing developers and because of leadership that consistently supports it. Current legisla...

The historic Sarah T. Haskins School is about to get a $1.75 million facelift and modernization to better serve Child Care of the Berkshires and its programs. The bulk of the funding, a $1 million grant from the state...

Child Care of the Berkshires announced a $1 million grant for renovations to its Haskins facility on State Street on Thursday. The funding will pay for the installation of an elevator, construction of handicapped acce...

The federal government estimates that on any given night, 3,000 to 4,000 female veterans are homeless. But that estimate is probably on the low side, according to Sara Scoco, who directs the Women's Program of the wes...

Local officials recently celebrated the grand opening of new affordable housing facility Whittier Lyndhurst Washington. The $20.1 million redevelopment created 44 units of affordable rental housing and 1,000 square fe...

Solidifying his commitment to creating more affordable housing for residents in Boston, Mayor Martin J. Walsh today joined Codman Square NDC (CSNDC), City officials and neighborhood leaders to celebrate the grand opening...

Much of the commonwealth’s stock of affordable housing, built in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, is at risk of losing affordability. Currently, there are more than 104,000 affordable housing units at risk of converting to ...