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  • Pine Street Inn Opens New Brookline Affordable Hou...
    CBS Boston / Sep 16, 2016

    Home sweet home is the new reality for 30 people in Brookline, thanks to the efforts of the Pine Street Inn. It’s part of an effort to build permanent homes for people who had been homeless. And for the people movin...

  • Valley Opportunity Council opens rebuilt Chicopee ...
    MassLive / Sep 15, 2016

    It took less than two weeks for 60 children to fill the Valley Opportunity Council's newly rebuilt early childcare center after it opened in late August. "The demand for slots is overwhelming," said Stephen C. Huntley...

  • How Cities Are Preserving Affordable Housing
    Next City / Aug 25, 2016

    The U.S. needs more affordable housing. A lot more. Between 2001 and 2013 the countrylost 2.4 million rental housing units (both market-rate and subsidized) that were affordable to people making less than 50 percent of...

  • Two Community Development Nonprofits Receive $1.3M
    MassNonprofit News / Aug 19, 2016

    Two Community Development Nonprofits Receive $1.3M August 19, 2016 — The Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation, a public-private community development finance institution that provides financial resour...

  • State grant to benefit Boston Street affordable ho...
    The Salem News / Aug 19, 2016

    State grant to benefit Boston Street affordable housing 2 rooming houses will become units for formerly homeless By Dustin Luca Staff Writer Aug 19, 2016 SALEM — Harborlight Community Partners just landed a...

  • CEDAC Provides $1.3M In Funding To Support Boston ...
    Banker & Tradesman / Aug 19, 2016

    CEDAC Provides $1.3M In Funding To Support Boston Housing And Child Care Aug 19, 2016 The Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) recently approved acquisition and predevelopment loans totalin...

  • Baker Administration Announces Affordable Housing ...
    Banker & Tradesman / Aug 16, 2016

    Baker Administration Announces Affordable Housing Development Awards Aug 16, 2016   The Baker Administration announced awards to fund the development, renovation and preservation of affordable rental housin...

  • Our view: Cape Ann leading the way on affordable h...
    Gloucester Times / Jul 28, 2016

    Our view: Cape Ann leading the way on affordable housing July 28, 2016   The last several days have brought good news in the struggle to make Cape Ann a less expensive place to live for its residents. La...

  • Proposed Rockport housing development gets $564,00...
    Gloucester News / Jul 28, 2016

    Proposed Rockport housing development gets $564,000 boost By Ray Lamont Staff Writer July 28, 2016 ROCKPORT — The nonprofit development group looking to build 23 units of affordable rental housing on Granite ...

  • Lynn School Gets A Reason to Aspire
    Item Live / Jun 25, 2016

    LYNN SCHOOL GETS A REASON TO ASPIRE A rendering of Aspire Developmental Services’ plan to convert the former O’Keefe School on Franklin Street into an early intervention center. BY PAUL HALLORAN LYNN — Aspir...

  • Baker-Polito Administration Awards $3.6 Million in...
    Executive Office of Education / Jun 14, 2016

    For Immediate Release - June 14, 2016 Baker-Polito Administration Awards $3.6 Million in Grants for Facilities Development to Increase Quality in Early Education Programs WEBSTER – The Baker-Polito Administratio...