Housing Headlines

BOSTON --- Many of the activists who lobbied for the Fairmount commuter rail line to add stops in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan are now worried that these stops will result in higher rents and the displacement of lower-income residents. On Dec. 7, a community discussion was convened by the Codman Square CDC to discuss what to do about this issue.

GREENFIELD --- A regional housing study for Franklin County has found that there is a shortage of housing for residents making below 50 percent of the region's median household income or under $40,000 per year.

FRAMINGHAM --- An editorial in the MetroWest Daily News warns that the state's high housing costs and our failure to build more moderately-priced housing could derail the state's economy and make it tougher on working families.

QUINCY --- Twenty low-income rooming house residents will soon be forced to find other rental housing now that Dorchester's Solutions Group Inc. has announced plans to turn the property into a 33-bedroom sober house.

HOPKINTON --- Town officials have asked the developers of a Ch. 40B housing development on Lumber Street to increase their proposal from 250 to 280 units so that the town can raise its supply of affordable housing above 10 percent, thereby gaining more control over future Ch. 40B multifamily requests. If passed, Mill Creek Residential's development will include 84 one-, 122 two- and 36 three-bedroom apartments spread out over six buildings.

SUDBURY --- Voters at a special Town Meeting on Dec. 3 unanimously agreed to spend $2.9 million to buy the 35-acre Johnson Farm from developer Robert Moss, whose four-year effort to develop the property has become bogged down in litigation with the state's Department of Environmental Protection.