Housing Headlines

BARNSTABLE --- After the Housing Assistance Corporation of Cape Cod when she was working three jobs and raising two children, Nancy Davison joined the organization and devoted 29 years to helping hundreds of Cape Codders find homes.

HAMILTON --- Following its news coverage of the intense push back from residents about three sites the town had put forth for affordable housing, an editorial in the Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle urged residents to cool rhetoric that went "beyond the pale," especially a speaker who reportedly called "into question the value system of other people just based upon their income level."

MILFORD ---- A longtime developer is proposing to work with the town on a "friendly 40B" land use permit for 156 apartments that would help the town get closer to 10 percent. Kevin Lobisser, who has been in town for 47 years, said he wants to go the "friendly 40B" route because, "I’m not interested in shocking the town.”

CONCORD --- Even though Concord has achieved greater control over affordable housing proposals because 10 percent of its housing is affordable, the town wants to do more, voting recently at Town Meeting to form a committee that would raise money and seek other strategies to build more affordable housing. "Before all the small houses in Concord

HAMILTON --- With some residents threatening to sue the town if it didn't back off, the Board of Selectmen and the Affordable Housing Trust are going back to the drawing board after having its three proposed sites for affordable housing shot down by residents.

QUINCY --- By an 8-1 vote, the City Council voted to remove the exemption Quincy Center has had from the city's inclusionary zoning bylaw, which requires that 10 percent of the units in projects of 10 units or more are affordable. The requirements will not apply to two projects already in the permitting stage – Chestnut Place, a 15-story, 124-unit apartment building planned for the Hancock Lot, and Nova Residences, a 171-unit apartment building planned along Hancock Street.