Housing Headlines

BEVERLY --- Windover Construction has submitted plans to build a five-story mixed-use development on Rantoul St. with businesses on the ground floor and 72 units of housing on the upper floors. The site is within walking distance of the MBTA stop.

FAIRHAVEN --- The only bidder on the town's request for proposals for the vacant Oxford School has indicated that his major concern is community opposition to his plan to buy the property for $325,000 and turn it into a 50-unit affordable housing development.

SOMERVILLE --- A spokesman for a development company that plans to build 1,000 units of housing at Assembly Square by 2017 said the number of units could be reduced by nearly half if the city passes a zoning law that ups the inclusionary zoning requirement for that area from 12.5 to 20 percent.

WORCESTER --- Capital Group Properties has agreed to work with the town on a Local Initiative Program application that will yield a mixed-use project that will include 150 apartments for seniors, commercial space and some single-family residential homes.

BOSTON --- A plan to turn an Egleston Square auto shop, garage and plumbing building into three buildings with a market-rate mixed-use development with 76 residential units has drawn resident concerns about parking, affordability and the size of the buildings.

BOSTON --- A feature story on a Boston man who is moving from a shelter into permanent housing developed by the Pine Street Inn notes that the nonprofit now manages more permanent than temporary beds.