Housing Headlines

PROVINCETOWN --- Following last month's passage by the House of Representatives, Gov. Deval Patrick in one of his last acts as leader of the state signed a law that will allow the town to put on its tax bills a box that will allow taxpayers to make a voluntary donation to the town for affordable housing.

BELMONT --- Last month, the planning board has approved design changes for Cushing Village, a mixed-use, three-building development that will feature 115 units housing. It is being proposed by Smith Legacy Partners for Trapelo Road and Common Street.

SALEM --- The city's Point Neighborhood has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a designation that could mean millions in historic tax credit investment that could be used to preserve historic buildings that now serve as affordable homes to much of the city's Latino population.

QUINCY --- Tenants of a Copeland Street 33-bed rooming house, who are being displaced by a planned sober house for women, are still looking for an affordable place to live.

NORTHAMPTON --- The Valley CDC has submitted revised plans for a $20 million affordable housing development at the former Northampton Lumber site. The nonprofit hopes to build a four-story building with 55 affordable apartments and first-floor commercial space.

FOXBORO --- The Hanover Company has announced plans to apply to the town for a Ch. 40B comprehensive permit so it can build 248 apartments off Rt. 106. The developers are no strangers to town, having previously built a 250-unit 40B development called The Lodge at Foxboro.