Housing Headlines

COHASSET --- Selectmen have begun to review candidates to serve on the local affordable housing trust, but are taking things slowly as they move to revive the trust that has not been in operation since 2008.

FOXBORO --- Thirteen residents have filed an appeal in state Superior Court regarding the Zoning Board of Appeal's recent decision to grant a Ch. 40B comprehensive permit to Hanover Company for the construction of 248 apartments. Known as Domain Foxboro, residents registered a litany of concerns including that the plan was out of character with the neighborhood.

CAMBRIDGE --- In a no-nonsense opinion piece in his hometown Cambridge Chronicle, Northeastern professor and go-to housing expert Barry Bluestone sees the city council election as a series of stark choices between building more housing and exclusionary policies that will allow the rich to get richer.

BOSTON --- The number of students living in East Boston grew by 115 percent between 2006 and 2013, the latest year that complete city data are available. That makes it one of the fast-growing neighborhoods for students, along with Roxbury, Mission Hill, and the Downtown Crossing/Chinatown area.

WORCESTER --- With the city's homeless population estimated to have climbed from 1,300 to 1,700 in the last four years, students at Worcester State College participated in a "One Night Out" event, listening to a panel of experts discuss the issue before spending a night outside to gain a sense of what homelessness is like.

PROVINCETOWN --- At a special town meeting on Monday, Oct. 25, voters convincingly shot down a proposal that would've put a two-year moratorium on condominium conversions, a move that was sought to protect tenants in year-round rentals from losing their homes when property owners convert to condos and sell them to second-home buyers.