Housing Headlines

ANDOVER --- The planning board has ended public discussions and is now deliberating on whether to grant National Development a Ch. 40B comprehensive permit to build a two-phase, 133-unit senior housing development on the former Strawberry Hill Farm.

BROCKTON --- In a sure signal Brockton's downtown development is moving forward, Trinity Financial has announced that applications are being taken for the 42 apartments in Enso Flats, the new 42-unit artist live-work space that is part of Trinity's $100 million residential and commercial development within steps of the city's commuter rail station. The flats are expected to be ready by spring.

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.