Housing Headlines

MEDWAY --- Five months after town meeting OK'd using $433,000 in Community Preservation Act funds to create a local housing trust, the trust committee has hired a part-time housing coordinator to help the town take steps to increase its supply of affordable housing.

SOUTHBOROUGH - Town officials are unhappy that a housing financing agency has given its support to 140 apartments of proposed affordable housing on Rte. 9, saying they never received the full plans from the developer.

NATICK --- The state has agreed to forgive its $350,000 loan to Natick Housing Authority so it could over operataing deficits, and has asked the housing authority to hire a management consultant to review its operations.

HARVARD --- Foreclosure auctions scheduled for Dec. 8 and 15 at The Inn and Great Elms have been postponed until January, according to William Marshall, president of the foreclosing lender, North Middlesex Savings Bank.

HARVARD --- Harvard selectmen have asked the quasi-public agency MassDevelopment to engage in local dialogue over a 246-unit apartment complex proposal planned for the decommissioned Fort Devens Army base.

FALL RIVER --- Acting before a Dec. 9 deadline that would've returned decision-making powerto the state, the city council has approved plans to demolish the 100-unit Watuppa Heights public housing project and redevelop the 9.5 acre site with mixed-income apartments and homes. Fall River's plan must now be approved by the state.