Housing Headlines

NORTH ANDOVER --- A nonprofit housing corporation expects to finalize a deal today to buy a former nursing home with plans of putting in 42 affordable apartments. The Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) will pay $925,000 for the 2.5-acre property at 75 Park St., which includes a two-story house, a parking lot and the vacant building of The Greenery, a nursing home that closed in 2003.

NEEDHAM --- The MBTA is hoping to develop an affordable housing complex near the Needham Heights Commuter Rail Station, which would include at least 60 units, increasing ridership and providing income through rents while helping the town reach the state's 10 percent affordable housing requirement.

CONCORD --- Developers have presented the town with a proposal to create 20 homeownership units on land which they recently purchased from the town. Six of the units would be affordable: Two plots would hold duplexes and the other two affordable units would be single-family homes, and all would be affordable to residents earning up to 80 percent of the area median income.

HINGHAM --- Developers will have to wait until next month to find out whether the town's planning board will support a 20 unit 40B effort, which if approved will be located in eight buildings on nine acres of land.

HOLLISTON --- The Zoning Board of Appeals gave their final and unanimous approval to go ahead with the construction of Cutler Heights, an affordable 'firendly 40B' housing effort that will be located behind town hall.

PROVINCETOWN --- With funds from the Community Preservation Act, town officials were able to negotiate a deal to purchase 2.53 acres of land from the Cumberland Farms convenience store company for $1.8 million. Four years later, the parcel is ready to be developed into 30 to 40 affordable housing units, the largest affordable housing effort on the Outer Cape. MHP is assisting the town develop a Request for Proposals for the effort.