Housing Headlines

CHARLESTOWN --- The Boston Redevelopment Authority recently approved an $18 million mixed-use complex that will include affordable housing and a community center. The Bridgeview Apartment Development will consist of 60 rental units, all of which will be affordable to residents earning at or below 60 percent of the area median income (AMI).

LEE --- A pair of local developer have plans renovate a former nursing home into 24 apartments along Prospect Street. Details about how affordable the units will be is still being decided.

FALL RIVER --- Back in November, Mayor Will Flanagan reversed an earlier decision to pull city funding from the downtown YMCA's housing project, saying he'd support the measure now that the new housing will show preference to single veterans and veterans with families.

SOUTH BOSTON --- Developer Colm Dunphy recently presented his plan to convert the South Boston Tribune Building into rental apartments and retail space to neighborhood residents. The complex will consist of eight one-bedroom apartments and 16 two-bedroom apartments with three of the apartments designated as affordable. The complex would also include two retail spaces on the first floor of the building.

DENNIS --- The Housing Assistance Corporation of Hyannis was recently awarded the contract to develop a 27-unit, 52-bedroom affordable housing complex on the former site of the Melpet Farm on Route 134. The complex will include eight New England-style buildings containing one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments. The apartments will be available to residents earning at or below 60 percent of the area median income with a one-bedroom apartment renting for $650 per month and a two-bedroom apartment renting for $850 per month.

AMHERST --- HAP and Valley Community Development Corporation will present plans for a 42-unit affordable housing complex at the Jones Library later this week. The units on Olympia Drive are intended to be affordable for residents who earn at or below 60 percent of the area median income, making rent for a one-bedroom unit around $750 per month with heat included. If the project is approved by the state, construction could begin by the spring of 2012 with units ready to be occupied by 2013.