Housing Headlines

CAMBRIDGE --- State and local officials gathered on Nov. 15 to celebrate the grand opening of Port Landing, a 20-unit affordable housing development built on a formerly vacant lot by Capstone Communities and Jason Korb. Local blogger Sam Seidl weighs in with congratulations and lots of pictures.

LOWELL --- A report this week on the state's Residential Assistance for Families in Transition Program (RAFT) found that the fund that kept over 600 Merrimack Valley families out of shelters. "RAFT is one of the strongest pieces of our statewide safety net to keep families out of shelter," Community Teamwork CEO Karen Frederick said of the findings of the Regional Housing Network report. "We need to thank Chairman Brian Dempsey of Haverhill who understood that prevention makes sense. He was a huge part in bringing the RAFT program back in 2012 after it had been dormant for several years."

LYNN --- A $1.2 million grant from the Baker Administration's MassWorks program will pay for water and sewer improvements that will support the development of 348 apartments on a former Lynnway car dealership site.

BOSTON --- In the latest sign of large-scale development pushing to the farthest edges of Boston, a developer this week filed plans with the city to turn a former warehouse and truck maintenance facility in Hyde Park’s Readville section into a 521-unit apartment complex..

NORTH QUINCY --- The public has received its first glimpse of a developer’s plans to build more than 600 apartments, 50,000 square feet of retail space and roughly 1,000 parking spaces on top of the North Quincy MBTA station parking lot. The project is being proposed by Atlantic Development of Hingham in partnership with The Bozzuto Group of Washington, D.C.

WATERTOWN --- New zoning rules that would require multi-family developers to make 12.5 to 15 percent of their units affordable depending on the size and location of their project has been approved by three key committees and now will go to the Watertown Town Council for approval.