Housing Headlines

ALLSTON --- Harvard University and Charlesview Inc., a non-profit developer, move towards a land-exchange agreement that will allow Harvard to extend their campus while giving Charlesview additional land on a new site that will allow them to increase their affordable housing stock.

AMESBURY --- The town has passed a bylaw to increase its housing stock by preserving historic buildings such as barns and carriage houses as affordable housing units.

CANTON --- A judge has ruled that the town can reject a developer's 40B proposal because although they have not reached the required 10 percent, the town already approved another proposal which, when built, will boost them over the quota. An appeal of the decision is expected.

WESTFORD --- Selectmen and town members wait for developers to answer their questions about the three different 40B proposals that have been submitted in town.

SALEM --- The Salem Point community is divided as many look forward to a $26 million development that would rehabilitate an old church into 97 units of rental housing and condominiums, with 45 percent of them affordable, but some senior citizens resist the plans which would relocate the local senior center to the ground floor of the property.

FRAMINGHAM --- As the group charged with crafting a housing plan prepares to release the document to the public, some members of the citizen advisory committee have protested that it is too vague and focuses too heavily on affordable housing.