Housing Headlines

WALPOLE - The 174-unit apartment complex proposed for Moosehill Road would designate a quarter of its units as affordable and wouldn't include any three-bedroom units that could attract children, a spokesman for Framingham-based Barberry Homes told Walpole officials recently.

CHELMSFORD --- With a purchase and sale agreement for a Littleton Road property in place, Chelmsford Housing Authority Executive Director David Hedison recently told selectmen of plans to apply to the town for a Ch. 40B comprehensive permit so it can build 115 units of affordable housing in a new development that is being called Chelmsford Woods.

PLYMOUTH --- The town's planning board has OK'd Kingston developer Rick Vayo's plan to turn the Plymouth Armory into some commercial space and 18 rental apartments, as well as the developer's decision to contribute $100,000 to the town's housing trust rather than make two of the units affordable. To go forward, the developer must also get the OK from the zoning board of appeals.

CANTON --- While concerned with how AvalonBay's 196-unit 40B proposal and two other 40Bs could impact municipal services, Canton officials are weighing carefully these proposals given that any one of them could boost the town's supply of affordable housng way above its current 10.0 percent, giving it greater ability to control 40B proposals down the road.

WORCESTER --- The city will issue an RFP next month on a four-story, 13-unit May St. building that it foreclosed on in 2011 after learning that developers impropertly used some of the $2.3 million in federal funds while failing to redevelop the building into affordable housing.

LYNN - Banks would not be able to file foreclosures with the Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds until they sat down with homeowners to discuss alternatives under a plan local City Councilors say will help keep residents in their homes.