Housing Headlines

PROVINCETOWN --- The grand opening of 23 affordable units at Stable Path was an opportunity to talk to residents who have jobs and now have finally found permanent year-round housing they can afford.

DANVERS --- Hoping to keep its housing supply above 10 percent so it can have greater control over new housing development, the Town of Danvers is discussing whether to adopt Ch. 40R zoning, a state program that offers incentives to towns who enact denser zoning for multifamily housing in so-called "smart growth" locations like town centers and/or near transportation.

WELLESLEY --- As the town begins discussions on a new comprehensive plan for the first time in 10 years, Planning Director Michael Zehner discusses the challenge of adding affordable and multi-family housing whle maintaining the town's single-family character.

HINGHAM --- The town has received four responses for a Request for Proposals it put out soliciting developers for an assisted living proposal for a 10-acre town-owned site off Beal St. If selectmen accept one of the bids, the project would be built under Ch. 40B and would include 83 assisted living units, with half of them affordable. The town maintains its supply of affordable housing is over 16 percent but the state says its at 8.5 percent or 129 units short. Senior housing on Beal St. would draw the town closer to the goal of 10 percent in the state's mind.

HYANNIS — A plan by two GOP candidates for state office to address homelessness on Cape Cod had its public debut on Monday, but a major component of an earlier version — temporarily housing homeless people at Joint Base Cape Cod — is now missing.

HAVERHILL --- With phase one of Tenney Place nearly complete and occupied, Dakota Partners of Waltham is preparing to start construction on phase two, which like the first phase will consist of 72 rental apartments, with 56 of the units affordable to families at or below 60 percent of area median income, or $65,700 for a family of four.