June
22
2016
WALTHAM --- Using a $600,000 grant from the Boston Foundation, three Boston nonprofits are teaming up to bring a focused set of services to 90 homeless families living in a Waltham Hotel, hoping that a concentrated effort will help these families find housing and a more healthy living situation.
June
22
2016
ARLINGTON --- With spring town meeting having passed two mixed-use bylaws for portions of Mass. Ave and Broadway, the town is now planning to issue a Request for Proposal seeking a buyer for the former Disabled American Vets building at 1207 Mass. Ave.
June
22
2016
HAMILTON --- Following a similar vote by the town's Affordable Housing Trust, selectmen have voted not to support Harborlight Community Partners' proposal to build 108 affordable apartments for seniors and families near the high school. Instead, the board voted to have the trust develop a list of potential housing sites in town, to acknowledge the need for senior and to support the process that housing proposals to the town go through the planning board first.
June
21
2016
PROVINCETOWN --- In an attempt to get their hands around the housing shortage where the median single-family home is $750,000, the median income is $56,000 and parking spaces are listed for $99,000, the town and the Chamber of Commerce brought in nine real estate and affordable housing experts to tour sites and interview residents, officials and business owners so as to determine what can be done to alleviate the problem.
June
21
2016
WORCESTER --- The Historical Commission has denied a Brooklyn-based development company's request to waive the one-year requirement on demolishing historic buildings, but the developer says he can wait one year before knocking down the 68 Gardner Street building and replacing it with market-rate multifamily housing.
June
21
2016
WASHINGTON --- Last week, the Department of Housing and Urban Development unveiled a proposal and asked for comment on a new rule that would remake the Housing Choice Voucher Program, adjusting the maximum value of vouchers in many major markets to account for the wide variation in what it costs to live in different neighborhoods. Instead of setting "fair market rent" standards at the metropolitan level, in about 30 major metros including Washington, New York and Chicago, HUD will set them by ZIP code instead.