by State House News Service | Mar 7, 2023
Gov. Maura Healey wants to separate housing and economic development in the state’s bureaucracy, mostly to give housing production the enhanced focus she says it desperately needs. But Healey doesn’t want to completely shatter the connection between the two topics.
by Banker & Tradesman | Mar 29, 2022
A former employee of Worcester’s Housing Development Office and Executive Office of Economic Development will serve more than three years in prison for her role in a $2.3 million fraud scheme relating to the redevelopment of a multi-family property in Worcester.
by Banker & Tradesman | Nov 22, 2021
From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: it’s The Personnel File.
by Doug Quattrochi | Nov 7, 2021
The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development has denied MassLandlords’ request to see where rental assistance was spent, or where applications were denied. The result is that $400 million of our public funds were spent in secret, with no public oversight. Landlords should be outraged.
by Steve Adams | Oct 21, 2021
WinnCompanies will break ground early next year on a $34 million residential conversion of Lawrence’s oldest mill building after receiving the final piece of its financing package.
by Banker & Tradesman | Mar 21, 2021
The spirit of the law is clear: Allow apartments for families near transit. But important details need to be sorted out by the Baker administration that will require flexibility and a watchful eye to prevent poison pills.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jan 21, 2021
For-profit and nonprofit developers looking to use any of 10 state grant programs as part of their financing packages will now be able to find them all in the same place.
by Banker & Tradesman | Nov 13, 2020
Proceeds from the sale of the Winthrop Center garage and inclusionary development payments from developers helped pay for the second phase of the Overlook Terrace at Orient Heights public housing redevelopment in East Boston.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 30, 2020
A real estate developer and attorney pleaded guilty in connection to a $2.3 million fraud scheme involving the redevelopment of a Worcester multifamily property.
by State House News Service | Nov 8, 2019
State officials and nonprofit housing organizations plan to develop a second-in-the-nation online tool over the coming year to make every affordable rental unit listing available on a single platform, and give property managers a simple way to manage their listings online.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 23, 2018
Affordable housing is the next big frontier in health care, and community development practitioners are catalyzing the growing discussion on social determinants of health, defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “conditions in the places where people live, learn, work and
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 31, 2018
A Springfield woman pleaded guilty to larceny charges in connection with a scheme stealing more than $8,000 from state agencies and a local homeless shelter.
by Banker & Tradesman | Apr 11, 2017
The Community Economic Development Assistance Corp. recently committed over $8.5 million in financing to Fenway Community Development Corp. to purchase and preserve Burbank Gardens, an existing affordable housing development located in the Fenway.
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 28, 2016
Housing nonprofit Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA) has completed renovations of Residencia Betances, an 11-room single-occupancy building on Shawmut Avenue in Boston’s South End that serves low-income individuals with mental health needs.
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 9, 2016
Massachusetts has done something remarkable – it has produced more than 1,750 new units of supportive housing in just three years.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 14, 2016
Chelsea and Somerville will receive $300,000 apiece in grants to support redevelopment of public housing properties into mixed-income developments as part of the state’s Partnership to Expand Housing Opportunities.
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 18, 2016
The Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will subsidize a housing development in Belchertown known as Carriage Grove.
by Banker & Tradesman | Mar 24, 2016
MassDevelopment has issued a bond on behalf of...
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 23, 2015
Harborlight Community Partners has received a...
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 17, 2015
North Shore Community Development Coalition recently...