CEDAC has underwritten and will support fourteen affordable housing projects that received funding awards in the most recent competitive round of affordable housing led by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC). CEDAC also committed a total to date of $9,265,000 in early-stage financing to five of these projects, including: War...
Announcing CEDAC’s 2024 Annual Report
Today, CEDAC proudly released our 2024 Annual Report. The report highlights many of the impactful projects that we helped fund throughout the year. Through our collaborations with over 41 community-based partners and more than 20 funders, we provided $44.5 million in early-stage funding and technical assistance for projects that were creating or preserving over 2,300 un...
CEDAC Early-Stage Project Funding Q2 FY2025
CEDAC Early-Stage Funding in Q2 of FY2025 Will Help Create or Preserve Affordable Housing in Communities Across the Commonwealth Project funding totaled over $1.7 million in predevelopment and acquisition financing. BOSTON (February 13, 2025) – The Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) announced today that its early-stage project financ...
CEDAC Early-Stage Project Funding Q1 FY2025
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Macsonny Onyechefule – Seven Letter macsonny@sevenletter.com CEDAC Early-Stage Funding in Q1 of FY2025 Will Help Create or Preserve Affordable Housing in Communities Across the Commonwealth Project funding totaled over $23 million in predevelopment and acquisition financing. BOSTON (November 4, 2024) – The Communi...
Amicus Brief Filed in SJC Case with Much at Stake for Preserving Affordable LIHTC Units
In INSITES this week: CEDAC, together with three other Massachusetts public agencies[1], filed an amicus brief on August 16, 2024 with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) in a case[2] that could have a significant impact on nonprofits’ ability to preserve long-term affordability in Low Income Housing Tax Credit (“LIHTC”)[3] projects. Oral arguments...
Announcing CEDAC’s 2023 Annual Report
Today, CEDAC released our FY23 Annual Report, highlighting our most exciting and impactful projects of the past year that were completed alongside our non-profit community development partners in our ongoing efforts to create greater access to high quality affordable housing and child care across Massachusetts. In 2023, the Commonwealth achieved historic milestones in t...
Announcing CEDAC’s 2022 Annual Report
CEDAC is thrilled to share our FY22 Annual Report, detailing recent projects and initiatives completed alongside our nonprofit community development partners in our ongoing efforts to create greater access to high quality affordable housing and child care across Massachusetts. In 2022, with the world beginning to once again look to the future after weathering the global...
New CDC Leaders: Listening Deeply with Keith Fairey, President and CEO of Way Finders
Keith Fairey, President and CEO of Way Finders BOSTON (October 25, 2022) – The past decades have seen the steady rise and proliferation of Community Development Corporations (CDCs), organizations created with the goal of revitalizing neighborhoods that had fallen victim to economic hardship. Areas that had fallen into disarray following years of neglect were offered n...
Baker-Polito Administration and CEDAC Award funding in 2022 Winter Rental Round to help create or preserve more than 1,474 units of affordable housing across Massachusetts
CEDAC committed predevelopment or acquisition financing to 6 of these projects - BOSTON, July 20, 2022 – The Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) is proud to serve as a financing partner in the production or preservation of 11 supportive housing projects announced during the Baker-Polito Administration’s most recent Supportive Housing funding r...
Baker-Polito Administration and CEDAC Award Funds to 11 New Supportive Housing Projects
CEDAC committed predevelopment or acquisition financing to 6 of these projects - BOSTON, July 20, 2022 – The Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) is proud to serve as a financing partner in the production or preservation of 11 supportive housing projects announced during the Baker-Polito Administration’s most recent Supportive Housing funding r...