Gov. Maura Healey wants to separate housing and economic development in the state’s bureaucracy, mostly to give housing production the enhanced focus she says it desperately needs. But Healey doesn’t want to completely shatter the connection between the two topics.
A former employee of Worcester’s Housing Development Office and Executive Office of Economic Development will serve more than three years in prison for her role in a $2.3 million fraud scheme relating to the redevelopment of a multi-family property in Worcester.
From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: it’s The Personnel File.
The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development has denied MassLandlords’ request to see where rental assistance was spent, or where applications were denied. The result is that $400 million of our public funds were spent in secret, with no public oversight. Landlords should be outraged.
WinnCompanies will break ground early next year on a $34 million residential conversion of Lawrence’s oldest mill building after receiving the final piece of its financing package.
The spirit of the law is clear: Allow apartments for families near transit. But important details need to be sorted out by the Baker administration that will require flexibility and a watchful eye to prevent poison pills.
For-profit and nonprofit developers looking to use any of 10 state grant programs as part of their financing packages will now be able to find them all in the same place.
Proceeds from the sale of the Winthrop Center garage and inclusionary development payments from developers helped pay for the second phase of the Overlook Terrace at Orient Heights public housing redevelopment in East Boston.
A real estate developer and attorney pleaded guilty in connection to a $2.3 million fraud scheme involving the redevelopment of a Worcester multifamily property.
State officials and nonprofit housing organizations plan to develop a second-in-the-nation online tool over the coming year to make every affordable rental unit listing available on a single platform, and give property managers a simple way to manage their listings online.
Affordable housing is the next big frontier in health care, and community development practitioners are catalyzing the growing discussion on social determinants of health, defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “conditions in the places where people live, learn, work and
A Springfield woman pleaded guilty to larceny charges in connection with a scheme stealing more than $8,000 from state agencies and a local homeless shelter.
The Community Economic Development Assistance Corp. recently committed over $8.5 million in financing to Fenway Community Development Corp. to purchase and preserve Burbank Gardens, an existing affordable housing development located in the Fenway.
Housing nonprofit Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA) has completed renovations of Residencia Betances, an 11-room single-occupancy building on Shawmut Avenue in Boston’s South End that serves low-income individuals with mental health needs.
Massachusetts has done something remarkable – it has produced more than 1,750 new units of supportive housing in just three years.
Chelsea and Somerville will receive $300,000 apiece in grants to support redevelopment of public housing properties into mixed-income developments as part of the state’s Partnership to Expand Housing Opportunities.
The Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will subsidize a housing development in Belchertown known as Carriage Grove.
