Housing Headlines

WALTHAM --- City councilors hope the mayor will accept the bid for a developer to convert an old school into affordable housing units, while the mayor waits for more proposals to be submitted.

AMESBURY --- The town has passed a bylaw to increase its housing stock by preserving historic buildings such as barns and carriage houses as affordable housing units.

CANTON --- A judge has ruled that the town can reject a developer's 40B proposal because although they have not reached the required 10 percent, the town already approved another proposal which, when built, will boost them over the quota. An appeal of the decision is expected.

BELLINGHAM --- Having reduced the density of the effort, developers are hopeful that the town board will approve their Silver Lake 40B proposal.

FRAMINGHAM --- As the group charged with crafting a housing plan prepares to release the document to the public, some members of the citizen advisory committee have protested that it is too vague and focuses too heavily on affordable housing.

SALEM --- The Salem Point community is divided as many look forward to a $26 million development that would rehabilitate an old church into 97 units of rental housing and condominiums, with 45 percent of them affordable, but some senior citizens resist the plans which would relocate the local senior center to the ground floor of the property.