A public nonprofit that supports & finances affordable housing
We support communities, housing authorities and nonprofits during the early stages of affordable housing development.
Learn MoreWe use private sources of capital to provide long-term, fixed-rate financing for multifamily housing.
Learn MoreWe partner with lenders all over Massachusetts to offer the state’s most affordable program for first-time buyers.
Learn MoreFRAMINGHAM --- Given the fact that many affordable housing efforts include local Community Preservation Act funds, local leaders and volunteers interested in creating more housing should sign up now for a Friday, May 10 training on how CPA can be used to support community housing.
DEVENS --- Registration is now open for the 13th annual MHP Housing Institute, which will be held on Wed. and Thurs., June 5 and 6 at the Devens Common Center, 31 Andrews Parkway, Devens.
BOSTON --- Using its ability to provide low-interest financing to help owners keep their apartments affordable, MHP has committed a $2.3 million, 40-year loan to the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation (ABCDC) for the refinancing of Ray Dooley Apartments, a 59-unit affordable housing complex in Allston.
Throughout its history, MHP's community assistance and lending teams have devoted themselves to demonstrating that small-scale affordable housing development can work . The latest example is Mashpee.
MHP Homeownership Director Elliot Schmiedl on racial disparities in mortgage lending and why MHP's ONE Mortgage Program has decided to revise its credit score requirements to increase opportunity.
BOSTON --- In recognition of Thadine Brown receiving an Emerging Leader Award at the Citizens' Housing and Planning Association annual dinner on Dec. 4, we are re-posting this essay from MHP's 2017 annual report about how buying her home with ONE Mortgage helped her build wealth for her family and start on a new career.
BOSTON --- MHP's Center for Housing Data has launched DataTown, a new interactive web site that features visualized data for every Massachusetts community.
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Recently, the Globe's Tim Logan wrote about how Waltham added 11,000 jobs but just a few hundred homes. The lack of specificity was no accident. Finding out how many units have been permitted is a challenge for reporters and policy makers. In using various data sets to figure how many new homes Waltham permitted, MHP's Tom Hopper shows that answering this basic question isn't that simple.
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