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Housing nonprofit Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA) has completed renovations of Residencia Betances, an 11-room single-occupancy building on Shawmut Avenue in Boston’s South End that serves low-income individuals w...

Based in the Bronx, New York City, Little Scholars exemplifies what a preschool can become with adequate facilities funding. Children stack blocks and point at pictures in books in a classroom that is filled with nat...

For more information and to apply for a Kuehn Planning Grant, please visit our Application Forms & Guidelines page under Housing Programs. The Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) was rec...

State’s Dedication To Supportive Housing Creation Has Paid Off – But There’s More Work To Do Massachusetts has done something remarkable – it has produced more than 1,750 new units of supportive housing in just ...

The Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation, a Boston nonprofit that provides financial resources and technical expertise for community-based and other nonprofit organizations engaged in effective community...

MassHousing and the state Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) announced $9.4 million in Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF) loan closings today which will help create or rehabilitate and preserve the ...

The FY2017 Early Education and Out of School Time (EEOST) Grant Program has begun. This program awards grants, of up to one million dollars ($1,000,000), to large group early education and out of school time programs for...

Courtney Morris no longer has to wonder where she and her children will sleep at night. Or where they will go to school. And she now has a safe place to store her things. “As of 2 p.m. Sept. 26, my family and ...

Mayor Tom Hoye still remembers driving by Carpenter’s Glen in East Taunton in the 1990s when it was just a bunch of “holes in the ground.” The property had been foreclosed on and the private developer had halted...

Annie Walsh first got involved with Aspire Developmental Services when her twins, Maeve and Myles, needed early intervention care. Aspire provides early intervention services to children who have, or are at risk for, ...

The hum of textile looms once filled the 19th-century mill buildings throughout downtown Lawrence. Immigrant workers from Ireland and Germany were among some of the first laborers. Today, many of the mill buildings in L...

North Shore Bank recently presented Aspire Developmental Services with a check for $1,160, the proceeds donated by bank employees as part of their weekly “Jeans Day” program. Pictured from left, Tina Bohondoney, Nort...