Housing Headlines

YARMOUTH --- The town hopes to use community preservation funds to purchase single-family homes and sell them at affordable rates.

BOXBOROUGH --- A strong demand for affordable housing in the 495 corridor has prompted a developer who had planned to build an office park to submit a proposal for a 40B effort that would include starter homes and rental units.

NORWELL --- The town and developer have reached a stalemate in a 39-unit 40B effort. Three years after the low-income residents were evicted from their cabins with promises that two would receive preference for the new units, the lot remains vacant.

WILMINGTON --- Selectmen have approved a 16-unit 'friendly' 40B. The four affordable units added by this effort place the town at the state's required 10 percent affordable housing goal.

DOVER --- Town leaders have formed a housing committee to research and plan how they will develop the affordable units necessary to fulfill 40B requirements.

EASTHAMPTON --- Citizens have submitted a petition to put a freeze on over-55 housing proposals while it reviews its housing master plan. The town had previously passed a bylaw in hopes of encouraging elderly affordable housing proposals, but faulty wording has allowed developers to build without inclusion of an affordable component.