Housing Headlines

BOSTON --- Mayor Marty Walsh has unveiled plans to revise the city's Inclusionary Development Policy. Changes include charging developers more to opt out depending on the neighborhood they are planning to develop in and raising the median income for affordable units in some neighborhoods from 70 to 100 percent AMI.

BOSTON --- In an opinion piece for Commonwealth Magazine, CEDAC's Roger Herzog and Bill Brauner warn that the state is facing the loss of over 4,000 units created under a 1970s program called 13A and sees one solution in a proposal to provide more state tax credits specifically to save this housing.

WELLFLEET --- In a Cape Cod Times op-ed piece, Wellfleet resident Brent Harold warns that the second home real estate market is killing communities on the Outer Caper and urges action, from creating more affordable housing to providing incentives so that year-round homes are sold to people who will live in them year round.

NEW BEDFORD --- Police are using specialized patrols to police downtown parking garages to stop people from staying overnight. So far, nine people have been arrested.

WEST TISBURY --- Voters at special town meeting approved a measure that clears the way for a 4.9 acre town-owned site behind the old fire station to be developed into seven apartments totaling 18 bedrooms.

EAST BOSTON --- Picked by the Boston Housing Authority in June to rebuild the aging Orient Heights housing development, Trinity Financial met with the neighborhood council in November and reiterated its plans to knock down the buildings and build something new, and promised to have some renderings for the community to review when it meets with the council again in January.