Housing Headlines

SUDBURY --- The Sudbury Housing Trust's effort to turn a one-acre lot into three affordable homeownership opportunities is nearing completion as a lottery will be held on Aug. 31 to determine who will get the chance to buy one of two duplex units selling for $178,700. A single-family affordable home on the same site was sold last year. The project was delayed when the original developer went bankrupt but the project was finished by Property Acquisition Group.

DORCHESTER --- State and local leaders gathered recently in Dorchester for a groundbreaking ceremony for Harmon Apartments, a new 36-unit accessible supportive affordable apartment complex that will allow disabled residents to live independently. Developed by Affirmative Investments, the project will feature 26 one-bedroom and 10 two-bedroom apartments.

WORCESTER --- Developer Allen Fletcher's plan to bring a $21.3 million mixed-use development with 48 market-rate apartments to Kelley Square received a significant boost when the city's economic development committee granted it a 10-year tax break that could save the developer over $800,000.

ROXBURY --- The massive transformation of the former Bartlett Street MBTA bus yard into 194 apartments and 129 condos kicked off recently with a groundbreaking on the first phase, which will feature 60 mixed-income apartments. The site is being developed by the nonprofit Nuesta Comunidad in partnership with Windale Developers.

HAVERHILL --- The Baker Administration's recent announcement of $100 million in housing awards came as good news for the City of Haverhill, as the city's plans to redevelop the former Gerson Furniture Building into 44 affordable apartments for veterans and their families moved once step closer to reality.

BOSTON --- In the Boston Housing Authority's ongoing effort to work with developers to fix public housing by allowing the addition of new units on site, three housing developers have been picked to renovate the BHA's senior housing building on Amory Street in Jamaica Plain while also adding new apartments to the six-acre site. Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp., Urban Edge and The Community Builders will team up to renovate the 199 senior units and add 353 mixed-income apartments at a total cost of $150 million.