Housing Headlines

MILFORD - Eden Management, the developers of a proposed 300-unit 40B apartment development on East Main Street, have filed with the Conservation Commission to delineate wetland areas on the 117-acre site. The Waltham-based company is asking the town for a Ch. 40B building permit so it can build two apartment buildings and a parking garage on a site that was once considered to be a potential site for a casino before the town voted against it by a 2-1 margin three years ago.

DANVERS --- The Baker Administration's efforts to stop placing the homeless in motels continues to make progress as there are no longer any homeless living in three Danvers motels. The state has used various forms of rental assistance and has increased its amount of shelter beds to reduce the need for using motels, officials said. When Gov. Baker took office in 2015, 168 homeless families were living in Danvers motels.

NANTUCKET --- The Nantucket Planning Board has unanimously approved 42 of the house lots Richmond Great Point Development has proposed for 17 acres off Old South Road. The development ispart of a much larger plan that includes another 51 lots and 225 apartment units on neighboring properties.

FALMOUTH --- In a departure from the usual comments town officials make about housing developments that apply for Ch. 40B permits, the Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously OK'd Falmouth Housing Corp.'s permit request and then heaped praise on the proposal. "This is certainly the quickest 40B that I’ve been involved with, and I think it is certainly a good project. Forty rental units go onto our housing stock, which is wonderful, and the applicant worked with us, the board, to address our concerns,” board chairman Kimberly A. Bielan said. “I think it’s a great location for the project, and I think it’s certainly beneficial for the town, so thank you.”

WORCESTER --- Continuing a tradition of previous attorney generals to revitalize abandoned and foreclosed properties, state Attorney General Maura Healey visited Worcester recently to visit a home that's being rehabilitated and put back on the tax rolls through her office's Abandoned Housing Initiative. In Worcester, the AG's office has been working with Worcester Community Housing Resources and receiver Michael Luby of Crossfire Construction. Dominick Marcigliano of WCHR said the city has received $1.5 million that has resulted in rehabilitating more than 300 housing units. The city is receiving another $625,000, which will pay for 125 more units.

NEWTON -- Writing an opinion piece for Commonwealth Magazine, Newton City Councilor Jake Auchincloss reflects on the experience of seeing residents come out in support of immigrants one night and fight a proposal for mixed-income housing the next.