Housing Headlines

FALMOUTH --- With the homeless population rising, the Falmouth Housing Corporation's four-unit Bridgeport residence at 587 Gifford Street is shifting its focus back to being transitional housing for the homeless and away from having permanent residents. (Falmouth Enterprise).

BOSTON --- The number of homeless families living in hotels and motels at state expense — the last resort for Massachusetts’ most vulnerable residents — has dropped dramatically since Governor Charlie Baker took office promising to end the practice.

DORCHESTER --- With a $3 million long-term loan commitment, the Massachusetts Housing Partnership was one of the participants in a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the start of construction for the Whittier Lyndhurst Washington Homes development in Codman Square, a $20 millin scattered site project that will create 44 affordable apartments. (Dorchester Reporter)

AMHERST --- After more than four years running the Amherst Housing Authority, Denise LeDuc is retiring as executive director and is slated to become the director of finance at the HIlltown CDC. <I>(Daily Hampshire Gazette) </I>

LITTLETON --- An economic self-assessment test paid for by a community compact grant from the Baker-Polito Administration shows that Littleton could improve its economic development by adding sewer capacity in the downtown and by making permitting more efficient, according to Northeastern Professor Barry Bluestone, who analyzed the test. Bluestone also suggested the town could do more to increase its supply of housing.

DANVERS --- Town Meeting approved an article calling for a ballot question for the Nov. election which will ask voters whether to adopt the Community Preservation Act, a local tax surcharge that raises funds for historic and open space preservation and affordable housing.