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The research has been consistent – children from low-income communities make tremendous educational gains when they have access to high quality early education programs. Early education has become an important priority...

IBA's supported-living house gets a makeover IBA's Residencia Betances, one of only a few housing facilities in Boston offering supportive services to formerly homeless, Spanish speaking residents, received a makeover...

In our constant efforts to improve the lives of our community, we unveiled the new & improved Residencia Betances with a ribbon cutting ceremony at the property last Wednesday. The ceremony marked more than just the ...

MassDevelopment has issued a $2,420,000 tax-exempt bond on behalf of Aspire Developmental Services, Inc., an organization in Lynn and Salem that provides programs for children and adults with physical and developmental d...

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 ...