Housing Headlines

BOSTON --- Former City Councilor Mike Ross argues that Boston continues to build housing it no longer needs and needs to build more larger multi-unit apartment buildings. Ross said since 2000, 18 percent of all new housing was single-family homes and the number of single-family homes was more than all structures built between five and 19 units.

BOSTON --- An abandoned industrial property right by a Fairmount Line stop is expected to transform into a site for mixed-income housing and local jobs. The city recently granted approval to a development team lead by the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation to create the so-called Indigo Block project, located at 65 East Cottage Street in Dorchester’s Upham’s Corner. The proposals for the 2.75 acre property includes 80 apartments (44 affordable), nine condos and a two-story commercial building.

WAREHAM – The Wareham Housing Authority has been contacted by the chief executive officer of the A.D. Makepeace Company of Wareham and asked to partner with the firm in developing a mixed-use development on Main Street that will include an affordable housing element.

FRAMINGHAM — After receiving approval earlier this year to build a new entertainment complex on Flutie Pass, an Ohio developer wants to expand the project to include 136 new apartments and a parking deck on the upper floors.

BOSTON --- Despite developer Terry Bruce’s assurances that she and her business partner, Mordechai Levin, are doing their best to make the apartments affordable to middle-class people, residents pushed for cheaper apartments and more affordable-housing units than the 25 percent proposed for the 44-unit proposal at 3353 Washington St.

NEWTON --- Mayor Setti Warren today outlined an ambitious housing plan for the city that pinpointed seven sites for development and said the effort will not only provide diverse housing options, but will help preserve the characteristics and values Newton has embodied.