Housing Headlines

MEDWAY --- The town's affordable housing trust has purchased the former American Legion building and hopes to turn it into housing "priced for households earning a mix of incomes below the area median.

ARLINGTON --- A consultant's suggestion that developers be allowed to build housing on "nonconforming buildable lots" around town that don't conform to zoning was eliminated from the town's master plan proposal after residents at a public hearing voiced fears that developers might cram in large homes that would not be in character with the neighborhood.

CHARLESTOWN --- The City of Boston has issued a Request for Proposals to gain an idea of what developers might do to rehabilitate the aging Bunker Hill public housing development, the oldest such development in the state.

BROCKTON --- The city's redevelopment of its downtown is beginning to take shape as Trinity Financial has begun leasing 71 market-rate and affordable apartments at Centre 50, one part of the company's $100 million redevelopment of the former Brockton Enterprise newspaper site.

DANVERS --- State Sen. Joan Lovely has filed legislation that would help communities get motel tax revenues lost when the state houses homeless families in motels for more than 90 days, as well as legislation that would create new programs to allow children living in motels the chance to attend after-school and summer programs at local YMCA's.

NORTHAMPTON --- The owner of two properties next to a proposed 55-unit mixed use development of the Northampton Lumber site has filed lawsuits asking the court to overturn the town's decisions to green light the project.