Housing Headlines

WINCHESTER --- Selectmen plan to send the town's Zoning Board of Appeals a letter detailing their concerns about the size and impact of a Ch. 40B proposal that calls for 95 rental units at 416 Cambridge Street near the Woburn-Winchester town line.

SAUGUS --- With a $15,000 grant from the state Dept. of Housing and Community Development, the Town of Saugus has tapped the Metropolitan Planning Council to do a housing plan that will give the town more control over development and how to develop its new mixed-use development zone in the Rt. 1-99 corridor.

BOSTON --- Boston’s rental market may be topping out, according to new figures from online real estate marketplace Ten-X. The company -- formerly known as Auction.Com -- issued a report ranking Boston among five markets with a “sell” rating on apartment buildings right now, suggesting the boom times of recent years may be drying up.

WORCESTER - Lawyers who successfully argued last year to have the city's aggressive panhandling ordinance overturned say the city's request to drastically reduce the fees and costs the plaintiffs can recover is "meritless."

FRAMINGHAM – The town has issued a “stop work” order against a couple building a tiny, 200-square-foot house on wheels behind a Framingham church.

MARTHA'S VINEYARD --- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston has awarded the nonprofit Island Housing Trust a $390,000 grant through the Edgartown National Bank for the construction of six new energy-efficient apartments in downtown Vineyard Haven.