Housing Headlines

HINGHAM --- While waiting for $750,000 in state funding, the developers of six affordable homes for military veterans are proceeding with construction and hope to be done by next Memorial Day, thanks to an interim loan from Rockland Trust. The developers - Father Bill's and Main Spring Inc. - have also received crucial support from the town when it voted last spring to appropriate $250,000 in Community Preservation Act funds to the project.

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.

LEOMINSTER --- Construction work has begun on the adaptive reuse of a historic Whiting paper mill into 40 affordable rental homes. Developed by the Twin Cities CDC and funded with federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits, the project has created over 100 jobs, according to the construction company hired to do the work.

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.

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.

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.