Housing Headlines

EASTHAM --- After some opponents voiced concerns over what types of people would be moving into a proposed 115-unit affordable housing complex, Cape Cod Times reporter K.C. Myers followed up with short profiles of six people who live in affordable housing on the Outer Cape.

EASTHAM --- Stratford Capital Group's bid to turn a former Rt. 6 driving range into 115 units of housing took a major hit this week as the Eastham Affordable Housing Trust decided not to fund the developer's request for $800,000 in local funds raised through the town's Community Preservation Act.

WEYMOUTH --- Income thresholds for public housing applicants are set at a level that excludes some disabled veterans, lawmakers and veterans said recently as they discussed a bill seeking address that issue.

WILLIAMSTOWN --- One of the sites that was first identified as a possible place for affordable housing that would replace mobile home park housing lost during Tropical Storm Irene may be in danger of flooding itself as residents say the former PhoTech Mill industrial site was in the river when the Hoosic River overflowed in 2011. Berkshire Housing Development Corp. is hoping to redevelop the mill building and land into 46 affordable apartments.

NANTUCKET --- As many as 25 neighbors and abutters of the proposed controversial 56-unit Surfside Commons 40B affordable-housing development packed a recent Zoning Board of Appeals meeting to voice their concerns over the proposal by Atlantic Development.

SOMERVILLE --- About 65 members of a local group called Zone Smart packed a Residential Neighborhoods Zoning Overhaul Meeting to ask that the city re-examine a decades-old law that limits the number of unrelated people in a single dwelling to four.