Housing Headlines

WILMINGTON --- As the town quickly approaches the state's required affordable housing minimum, the planning director looks ahead to plans for future affordable efforts in an attempt to keep their housing stock up-to-date with the state's standards.

CHELMSFORD --- A positive meeting between developers and selectmen has set plans in motion for the construction of 51 homeownership condominiums, 13 of which will be affordable units.

BOSTON --- California-based Freemont Investment & Loan is tied to more than 120 of the roughly 1,100 foreclosure filings by lenders against Boston condo and home owners, according to John Anderson, a Dorchester foreclosure guru and head of The Real Estate Analyst, a business that tracks foreclosure filings.

NEEDHAM --- Charles River Landing will include 300 one and two-bedroom apartments inside a mix of retail and commercial space, in an effort to attract young professionals to live in this mixed-income development.

BOSTON --- Tenants of a low-income building in Chinatown have submitted a proposal to purchase the property for $2.4 million and hope to sign an agreement to make the units permanently affordable.

BOSTON --- Harvard University has released a 50-year multi-billion dollar master plan detailing its vision to expand its facilities and housing between Western Avenue and Soldier's Field Road in Allston.