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MassHousing has arranged financing to improve two Boston-area apartment complexes and maintain their affordability. The 90-unit Cleaves Court and Dimock Bragdon Apartments in Roxbury will receive $16.9 million in financ...

MassDevelopment has issued a $5.825 million bond to fund an affordable housing project in Chelsea and Revere. The Neighborhood Developers (TND), the project’s sponsor, is using bond proceeds to acquire and renovate ...

Boston officials approved a controversial proposal by Equity Residential to build 470 apartments on the site of the 650-space Garden Garage in the West End. The 44-story tower at 35 Lomasney Way will become the city’s...

Haverhill has always been good to its military veterans. Organizations such as the AmVets and the VFW provide services to local people who served their country. The Veterans Services Office in the Citizens Center does...

The 5-year-old boy in the green shirt with “Cool Little Bro” written across the chest had just thumped 81-year-old Mary Steele in the nose with a balloon. Steele, who was baby-sitting the excited child for his foster...

Think it is tough landing a market-rate apartment? Try snagging an affordable rental. Richard Thal, executive director of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC), notes the nonprofit has been floode...

As she retires from the field, Mav Pardee of Children’s Investment Fund reflects on the importance of creating high-quality, supportive environments for early childhood learning. Quality is a shared concern among many ...

Solving the Massachusetts affordable housing crisis will not be possible unless we preserve existing housing as well as produce new homes. Given the housing production constraints Massachusetts faces, losing even one un...

Earlier this week, the Worcester Regional Research Bureau published a brief indicating that only 46 of 351 Massachusetts communities have achieved a state guideline (Chapter 40B) requiring at least 10 percent of their ho...

Home Funders is sponsoring an Innovation Fund Competition to develop new strategies and solutions to increase the supply of affordable housing for extremely low-income (ELI) families. The program is encouraging a wide r...

MassDevelopment has announced additional funding for Springfield Technical Community College Assistance Corporation and the Phoenix Public Charter Academy High School project. MassDevelopment, the state's economic devel...

Nonprofit community-building organization Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion (IBA) was formed in 1968 when urban renewal threatened the homes of longtime residents of Boston’s South End. Nearly a half-century later, housing...