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Now with state and federal backing, Rockport's Granite Street Crossing affordable housing project will finally be able to get off the ground after nearly five years of planning. The project is one of 28 affordable h...

Today, Governor Charlie Baker, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy and Housing and Community Development Undersecretary Jennifer Maddox joined local legislators and offic...

Roger Herzog, Executive Director of the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC), and its Project Manager, Will Morgan, discuss the agency's predevelopment financing for transit-oriented mixed income...

It took five years, but the evidence of progress is everywhere. The newly-paved access road flanked by cement footings for street lights. The cleared lots with white septic and water pipes protruding from the dirt. ...

Charles Clark moved to Boston’s South End when he was a young musician, just getting by. Forty years later, he lives in the same historic brownstone, even as rising wealth has pushed many people out of the neighborho...

With a supportive housing and senior care ecosystem and experienced leadership, Massachusetts can serve as a beacon for the nation. When it comes to aging well, where we live — and how and with whom — has an o...

Construction has commenced on 60 new, mixed-income apartment homes at Bartlett Station in Roxbury, which will conclude the first phase of the five-phase redevelopment of the former MBTA Bartlett Bus Yard in Nubian Sq...

Today, Governor Charlie Baker, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, and Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy joined House Speaker Ronald Mariano, Quincy Mayor Tom Koch, Senator John Keenan, and advocates...

The state has vowed to chip in $4.2 million toward the planned new Father Bill's & MainSpring facility for the homeless in Quincy. Gov. Charlie Baker announced the funding Wednesday after touring Father Bill's and...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy and Housing and Community Development Undersecretary Jennifer Maddox recently announced the Community Development Corporation...

BOSTON– MassHousing has closed on a total of $5.5 million in affordable and workforce housing financing to the non-profit The Neighborhood Developers, Inc. (TND), to tr...

COVID-19 has exposed the flaws in our society’s response to homelessness. When the highly contagious novel coronavirus was spreading across the country early last year, emergency shelters were packed to capacity with...