Housing Headlines

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.

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.

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.

AMHERST --- Amherst property owner Joel Greenbaum has filed an appeal of the Planning Board decision to grant site plan approval for One East Pleasant Street - a five-story mixed used development where the Carriage Shops are located.

NEWTON --- Calculations made by various city departments have determined that Newton has met one of the requirements to gain exemption from Ch. 40B housing developments. Less than 10 percent of the city's housing is affordable but the city has found it meets the other requirement as more than 1.5 percent of its eligible land area is being used for affordable housing.