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GLOUCESTER, Aug. 8, 2003 --- Using its ability to provide private sector financing for affordable rental housing, the Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP) plans to provide $2.6 million in financing for 39 new units at the historic LePage factory site.

SANDWICH, June 24, 2003 --- While a public hearing on the state's controversial affordable housing law was beginning at the State House, a 36-unit affordable rental apartment complex built under the law known as Chapter 40B was celebrating its grand opening on Cape Cod.

SALEM, June 6, 2003 --- Two affordable housing complexes in Salem will continue to serve the city's low-income and working class citizens for years to come thanks in part to long-term financing from the Massachusetts Housing Partnership and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

BOSTON, May 14, 2003 --- The Massachusetts Housing Partnership is committing $4.8 million in permanent financing toward the rehabilitation of the Dartmouth Hotel in Dudley Square.

PROVINCETOWN, May 2, 2003 --- At the end of the Cape, where single-family home prices average $450,000 and a one bedroom can rent for as much as $10,000 a summer, residents and housing advocates gathered to celebrate the redevelopment of the old A&P grocery story site into 18 units of affordable rental housing.

WORCESTER, April 25, 2003 --- The Massachusetts Housing Partnership is committing $415,000 in financing for the rehabilitation of an abandoned building into five affordable apartments, pushing its lending total for small-scale rental housing in the city to $6 million since 1996.