Housing Headlines

CENTERVILLE --- Long-term tenants who have been living at the Craigville Motel have begun to move out after the Barnstable Board of Health chose not renew its license due to code violations and because its license limits stays to 30 days or less.

BOSTON --- The state's Housing Appeals Committee has determined that Stoneham has not met the state's minimum threshold of having at least 1.5 percent of its developable land devoted to affordable housing. The decision paves the way for developer John M. Corcoran & Company to move forward with its 264-unit proposal for Weiss Farm.

BOSTON --- The Boston Housing Authority has won federal approval to change the way it distributes housing units to senior citizens and disabled adults in the 36 elder-disabled apartment buildings owned by the city of Boston. The U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has approved the BHA's request to change the ratio of elderly to non-elderly disabled in its buildings to 80 percent elderly, 20 percent non-elderly disabled. It had previously been 70-30.

YARMOUTH --- Four motels along Route 28 are being rehabilitated into year-round apartments. The four hotels being converted are: Neptune Place (28 units, 6 affordable), Seagull Beach Motel (8 units, 2 affordable), Cap'n Gladcliff (24 units, 7 affordable) and the Windrift (7 units).

GROTON --- Affordable for-sale units at the new Boynton Meadows subdivision are selling slowly and the town's housing coordinator says it's because first-time buyers are having trouble meeting all the various requirements needed to secure financing.

BOSTON --- A researcher taking a graduate level class at Northeastern University has used new tools to map economic disparities in Boston on metrics ranging from unemployment, rent burden, household income, commute times, home ownership and families under the poverty level. Take the link to the Globe story or go to researcher Daniel Hartman's results at Hartman.dj/boston.