Register now for MHP Housing Institute
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.
Massachusetts
Housing Partnership
A public nonprofit that supports & finances affordable housing
How MHP Works
Community Assistance
We support communities, housing authorities and nonprofits during the early stages of affordable housing development.
Learn MoreRental Financing
We use private sources of capital to provide long-term, fixed-rate financing for multifamily housing.
Learn MoreONE Mortgage
We partner with lenders all over Massachusetts to offer the state’s most affordable program for first-time buyers.
Learn MoreIt's spring training for trusts & CPCs
MHP will conduct two trainings this spring to help communities understand how to effectively use local funds to support affordable housing - a housing trust roundtable on the Cape in April and Community Preservation Act and housing training in May.
Mashpee's Great Cove fits needs of community
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.
Eastham comes up big for Nauset Green, with assists to Wellfleet, Orleans
EASTHAM --- Perhaps no affordable housing ceremony in recent memory has illustrated the increasing impact of town support better than the ground breaking for the Village at Nauset Green on Friday, Dec. 7.
Homeownership: We can do more
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.
ONE Mortgage success story
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.
What's New at MHP
DataTown is here!
BOSTON --- MHP's Center for Housing Data has launched DataTown, a new interactive web site that features visualized data for every Massachusetts community.
Read MoreSo just how many homes did Waltham allow while gaining 11,000 jobs?
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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