December
7
2014
FRAMINGHAM --- An editorial in the MetroWest Daily News warns that the state's high housing costs and our failure to build more moderately-priced housing could derail the state's economy and make it tougher on working families.
December
7
2014
FRAMINGHAM --- An editorial in the MetroWest Daily News warns that the state's high housing costs and our failure to build more moderately-priced housing could derail the state's economy and make it tougher on working families.
December
6
2014
QUINCY --- Twenty low-income rooming house residents will soon be forced to find other rental housing now that Dorchester's Solutions Group Inc. has announced plans to turn the property into a 33-bedroom sober house.
December
5
2014
HOPKINTON --- Town officials have asked the developers of a Ch. 40B housing development on Lumber Street to increase their proposal from 250 to 280 units so that the town can raise its supply of affordable housing above 10 percent, thereby gaining more control over future Ch. 40B multifamily requests. If passed, Mill Creek Residential's development will include 84 one-, 122 two- and 36 three-bedroom apartments spread out over six buildings.
December
4
2014
GREENFIELD ---- Governor-elect Charlie Baker's pledge to put an end to homeless families living in hotels has resonated in Greenfield, where approximately 85 homeless families live in two hotels - a number that has been pretty steady for the past two years, the newspaper reported.
December
4
2014
SUDBURY --- Voters at a special Town Meeting on Dec. 3 unanimously agreed to spend $2.9 million to buy the 35-acre Johnson Farm from developer Robert Moss, whose four-year effort to develop the property has become bogged down in litigation with the state's Department of Environmental Protection.
December
3
2014
WESTON --- Residents voted at special Town Meeting on Dec. 2 voted to spend $2.7 million to create seven units of affordable housing and another $1.2 million to acquire and renovate another property into two units.