Housing Headlines

BREWSTER --- Ocean Edge resort's plan to install seven portable "hotel" buildings to house up to 84 seasonal workers ran headlong into nearby neighbors who fear the buildings will be too near their homes and will disrupt the quiet neighborhood. “Bringing 84 people together will be a nightmare,” one area resident said at a recent meeting. “They all like to drink and smoke.”

EASTHAM --- Having been hit with a number of unpopular development proposals along Route 6, the Town of Eastham may designate a long stretch of the main highway to the Wellfleet line as a critical planning district, a regional designation that would put the area off limits to most development for a year while the town tries to write zoning regulations that will provide a blueprint for the type of growth it wants.

FALMOUTH --- It looks like no one's happy with the Zoning Board of Appeals' recent decision to OK a comprehensive land use permit for 104 apartments on Main Street, as the Falmouth Enterprise is reporting that the developer has filed a suit objecting to 38 of the more than 70 conditions the ZBA imposed while four residents have filed a suit that objects to how construction will impact certain rights of way.

BOSTON --- Governor Charlie Baker announce the state's annual round of housing tax credit awards and other state and federal funding at a recent groundbreaking for another phase of Olmsted Green, an affordable housing development on the grounds of Boston State Hospital in Mattapan. All told, Baker announced $100 million in funding for the financing of 25 projects and 1,978 units, 1,700 affordable.

BOSTON --- In one of a series of meetings the city is holding to garner information for a report to the federal government on fair housing, Roxbury residents and officials discussed a range of issues, including landlords not accepting Section 8, displacement due to the high cost of housing and a city pilot program that would provide a financial reserve fund for landlords who rent to homeless.

WELLESLEY --- Reporter Jennifer Zarate runs down the three multi-family housing proposals developers are discussing with the town - a 95-unit plan for Delanson Circle, a 44-unit plan for Great Plain Ave. and a Rte. 9 plan (680 Worcester Ave.) that was before the town a year ago, but has resurfaced with a new owner.