Housing Headlines

LITTLETON --- Abutters to a proposal that would add 190 apartments and a 19-lot subdivision to their neighborhood are upset at selectmen for not letting them repeat their concens at a recent public meeting, even as the developer - Omni Properties - added to its original offer of paying the town $1.2 million for sewer easements.

NEWBURYPORT --- A regional survey of the homeless population in Newburyport, Amesbury, Salisbury, Newbury and Rowley estimates that there are 76 individuals - five of them children - that are considered homeless.

REVERE --- Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki today announced $67 million in affordable housing resources and tax credits for 23 developments in 21 communities.

NORTH ANDOVER --- Over 60 residents packed the zoning board of appeal's first public meeting on whether to grant a developer a Ch. 40B permit to build 240 rental apartments on a former horse farm on Rt. 114.

WORCESTER --- The city has started foreclosure proceedings on a controversial May Street affordable apartment building so it can recoup and pay back some of the $2.3 million in public funds it used illegally to fund the project.

CANTON --- In an ongoing effort to improve energy efficiency in its apartment buildings, Peabody Properties has recently completed an energy overhaul on the Lamplighter Village apartment complex. Peabody has now partnered with the Low Energy Affordability Network (LEAN) and Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) to do energy audits and overhauls on 16 properties.