Housing Headlines

MILTON --- The planning aboard has approved a special cluster development permit that will allow Pulte Homes to move forward with plans to build 23 single family homes on 34 acres on an historic town-owned property called Milton Woods. Pulte will pay the town $5 million for the land once Pulte has obtained all the necessary permits. (Paywall. Only limited version of story can be found online).

HYANNIS --- After there were indications that the seller might be getting cold feet due to resident push back, Homeless Not Hopeless has purchased a four-bedroom residential home in a single-family neighborhood and will continue to pursue plans to turn it into long-term housing for the homeless. The new owners said they will make every effort to work with neighbors but one resident has filed a petition requesting an amendment to zoning bylaws prohibiting group homes in single-family neighborhoods.

PLYMOUTH --- Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito was on hand to help celebrate the groundbreaking of The Seaport at Cordage, a 204-unit mixed-income development that will be built by JANCO Development. The development will be built at Cordage Park, an old rope factory site in Plymouth Harbor that has been partially redeveloped with commercial space. A $2 million MassWorks infrastructure grant from the Baker-Polito Administration was used to knock down a former Wal-Mart store and pave the way for the new housing. Fifty-one of the apartments will be affordable.

BOSTON --- Detailed plans recently submitted to the city by Boston-based Long Bay Management estimate that building a 25-story mixed-use tower in Dudley Square would cost $144 million and would consist of 165 mixed-income apartments and 46 condos, two floors of office space, ground-floor commercial space and two other existing buildings that will be incorporated into the project.

BOSTON --- Data showing that rents in older Hub properties are down 4 percent is a clear sign that Mayor Marty Walsh's goal of building 53,000 new housing units is working to reduce rents, writes the Boston Globe in a recent editorial.

HAMILTON --- Fourteen months into an agreement between the town and Harborlights Community Partners agreed to find a site for affordable housing, the nonprofit is no closer to breaking ground due to resident push back, an impasse that has caused the town's housing trust to weigh its future and the nonprofit to consider a larger project even though it may not be what the community ideally wants.