Housing Headlines

ROXBURY/JAMAICA PLAIN --- Urban Edge developers recently began green renovations on the Urban Edge Apartments (UE Apartments) in Boston's Roxbury and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods. The complex consists of 82 units of occupied, affordable rental housing in 10 buildings on seven sites across the two neighborhoods.

SOUTH END --- Low Cost Tenants Association recently received $6.64 million in tax-exempt bond financing to purchase a 75-unit rental complex in Boston's South End neighborhood. The bond financing will be put towards purchasing, renovating, and maintaining the affordability of complex's units.

DORCHESTER --- This past summer, the Hendry Street Neighborhood Watch held a block party to commemorate its activities and the neighborhood's success at revitalizing foreclosed and distressed properties. (Note: MHP missed this story when it was published on July 28 but felt we should bring it to your attention. The story includes a video about the neighborhood, once referred to by the Boston Herald as "ground zero" for foreclosures in Boston).

YARMOUTH --- Residents in the unfinished Mill Pond development have been left with the job of collecting condo fees and paying for the operation of a wastewater treatment plant after the developers defaulted on the project. Only 61 of the 136 townhouse condominiums were built when the economy stalled the project.

EASTON --- Local officials are hoping that the redevelopment of the historic Ames shovel factory into 113 apartments will trigger downtown growth. The project, expected to begin construction on Feb. 1, includes a wastewater treatment plant and a sewer district that will cover the village business district.

FALMOUTH --- With funding that included federal low-income tax credits and local CPA funds, Bob Murray and the Falmouth Housing Corp. have completed and rented all 39 units in a $10 million affordable housing project for seniors on the site of the town's former VFW hall.