Housing Headlines

FEB. 20, 2015 --- In the most recent issue of Banker & Tradesman, B'nai B'rith Executive Director Susan Gittelman opined in favor proposed legislation that would remove administrative barriers to housing production.

PLYMOUTH --- A developer who says he can't sell affordable condo units due to a shortage of qualified buyers is asking that the town revisit its inclusionary zoning bylaw which requires that one affordable unit be provided for every seven built.

HINGHAM --- Local developer Thomas Hastings recently purchased the former Building #19 property and hopes to build 150 luxury senior condos.

TAUNTON --- Developer Russell Barnaby of Carlisle-based Taunton Mills LLC came before the city council in January to outline his $13.6 million plan to turn four industrial lots on Oak St. into a mixed-use development that includes 62 apartments - 40 in a new building and 22 in two existing buildings.

TEWKSBURY --- A request for $90,000 in Community Preservation Act funds to rehab and expand Janet's House - a sober house for women - was denied by the CPC committee on the basis of it's status as a rehabilitation project, which the committee said is not allowed under CPC rules.

ANDOVER --- Hanover Properties of Boston and Houston moved one step closer to beginning work on a 250-unit Ch. 40B affordable housing development in the Shattuck Road industrial park after Suffolk Superior Court denied an appeal by five nearby businesses to stop the project.