Housing Headlines

HYANNIS --- With a month remaining, about 150 people have signed up for the housing lottery for the second phase of Village Green Apartments in Hyannis. The 60-day application period for the lottery began on Aug. 1 and continues until Sept. 30. Developed by Dakota Partners with financing from MHP, the second phase of Village Green Apartments will contain 60 units total — 42 two-bedrooms, 14 one-bedrooms and four three-bedrooms — the same as the first phase.

WORCESTER — After striking out with the high bidder of $131,000 for a vacant May Street apartment building, the city is now selling it to the next highest bidder at a price ($48,000) that is not only less but also well below its assessed valuation o $580,700.

DORCHESTER --- Milton-based Trinity Green Investments is proposing a 52-unit studio apartment building in Dorchester that would house older homeless tenants and be staffed and managed by Boston’s Pine Street Inn.

SOMERVILLE --- The Globe's Matt Rocheleau takes a look at recent headlines saying only 22 of Somerville's 11,800 residential lots conform to current zoning and how the city is trying to revamp its zoning code "to allow for the kind of development Somerville and our region desperately needs."

DORCHESTER --- Long-time tenants of 57 mismanaged apartments on Waldeck Street in Dorchester and Orlando Street in Mattapan are calling for responsible ownership after a negligent landlord filed for bankruptcy in July.

ASHLAND --- A plan by EA Fish and the Planning Office of Urban Affairs to build more than 100 bedrooms for people over 62 is being challenged by residents, who are suing the town over its decision to make a loan to developers to help them gain site control of the town-owned site.