Housing Headlines

BOSTON --- Cruz Companies President John Cruz joined Mayor Martin Walsh, state Housing and Economic Development Director Jay Ash and state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry for the unveiling of 83 newly renovated affordable apartments in seven buildings at the 349-unit Wayne Apartments complex. The $33 million preservation project was funded primarily with a $20 million tax-exempt bond issued by MassDevelopment.

QUINCY --- The nonprofit NeighborWorks of Southern Mass. is teaming with Winn Companies to demolish a blighted Quincy Point building and replace it with The Watson, a 140-unit mixed-income apartment building.

EASTON --- In an interview with the Brockton Enterprise, the chairman of the Easton Board of Selectman, made a strong case for more affordable housing, saying affordable housing is vital to the town's communal and economic health while arguing that concerns over cost impacts are overblown.

QUINCY --- Saying that five sober homes have opened up in the last five months in the area he represents, City Councilor Brian Palmucci has introduced a bill with two other councilors that would require sober homes to be licensed before they can open up.

BOSTON --- Trinity Financial, owners of the Treadmark building that was largely destroyed in a June fire, have won city approval to demolish the top five floors of the six-story Dorchester Avenue structure. The company said that it will begin the work soon with plans to rebuild the mixed-use structure over the next year.

SANDWICH --- In its first foray on Cape Cod, the Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development is proposing to build 30 affordable apartments on a six-acre site behind George Fernandez Way. Selectmen received a presentation on the project earlier in August and voted unanimously to back the project.