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Training for local officials, volunteers and employees in suburban & rural communities

BOSTON --- MHP will host it's 11th annual Housing Institute on June 7 & 8, 2017 at the SpringHill Suites at Devens Common Center, 27 Andrews Parkway, Devens, MA 01434.

​MIDDLEBORO --- In its heyday, the three-story wood-framed shoe factory on Peirce Street stood proudly next to the neighborhood’s single-family homes, employing a hundred workers. Now, it's been preserved as affordable housing development called Shoe Shop Place.

Following up a successful training in September, the Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP) and the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission (CMRPC) will jointly host a training focused on Municipal Affordable Housing Trusts (MAHT).

Mission Hill's vision for Roxbury Crossing begins to take shape

​BOSTON --- Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services’ efforts to bring housing and economic development to the neighborhood reached another milestone recently as it celebrated the start of construction at Parcel 25, a vacant two-acre parcel across the street from the Roxbury Crossing MBTA Orange Line station.

Watch national economic development consultant Matt Tarleton's presentation on what powers economic growth, delivered at the 2016 MHP Housing Institute.

Sign up for Dec. 9 trust training in Worcester

BOSTON --- This past summer, the Commonwealth took a big step in resolving discrepancies between the Community Preservation Act (CPA) and the Municipal Affordable Housing Trust (MAHT) statutes when Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law An Act Modernizing Municipal Finance and Government (H. 4565). Included in the bill were changes to the MAHT statute, MGL Chapter 44, Section 55c.