Housing Headlines

CHELMSFORD --- With the housing authority reportedly poised to bid on the property, the public foreclosure auction for 16 low-income senior apartment units scheduled for Friday, July 9 was cancelled at the last minute when the owner of the Brianna Lyn apartments apparently reached an agreement with his bank.

CLINTON --- The developer who is turning Lunenburg's Whalom Park into housing has bought the unfinished portion of The Woodlands condominum project, which was foreclosed on last year.

BARNSTABLE --- Describing it as ra esponse to recent public debate about how to reduce beds at a downtown Hyannis homeless facility, the Cape's county commissioner and a local housing advocate have announced the formation of new regional committee that will work to find permanent housing for the homeless.

CONCORD --- Developers of a 350-unit affordable housing development in West Concord recently announced that they will most likely be breaking ground on the project in a few weeks. When completed, the rental project will consist of one and two bedroom apartments with 88 units set aside for lower-income renters.

LUNENBURG -- Holliston developer Jon Juhl's plans to convert the old Lunenburg Primary School into 40 one-bedroom affordable apartments for seniors 62 and over suffered a setback recently when his application for federal financing was passed over.

WORCESTER --- A celebration to mark the progress of a decade-long, multi-million dollar public-private effort to revitalize 30 acres in the Main South neighborhood also rekindled talk as to how the city's community development corporations will fit into the city's evolving housing policy, which has proposed expanding grant opportunities to more private developers.