Orange hopeful for $24K grant to fund housing production plan
Downtown Orange. With the Selectboard’s approval, Orange Planning and Community Development Director Alec Wade intends to apply for a state grant to complete a housing production plan that will gauge the capacity for, and need for, housing growth in town. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 5/7/2021 3:15:41 PM
ORANGE The Selectboard voted unanimously on Wednesday to authorize the town’s planning and community development director to apply for a state grant to complete a housing production plan that will gauge the capacity for, and need for, housing growth in town.
Orange hopeful for $24K grant to fund housing production plan
Downtown Orange. With the Selectboard’s approval, Orange Planning and Community Development Director Alec Wade intends to apply for a state grant to complete a housing production plan that will gauge the capacity for, and need for, housing growth in town. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Modified: 5/7/2021 3:15:50 PM
ORANGE The Selectboard voted unanimously on Wednesday to authorize the town’s planning and community development director to apply for a state grant to complete a housing production plan that will gauge the capacity for, and need for, housing growth in town.
The state last week announced a total of $2.5 million in Urban Agenda grants to support 30 projects in 23 communities, including Chelsea and Revere.
Launched by the Baker-Polito Administration in 2015, the Urban Agenda Grant Program promotes economic vitality in urban neighborhoods by fostering partnerships that capitalize on unique local assets and community-driven responses to specific challenges. Urban Agenda grants are competitive one-year awards that offer these partnerships flexible funding to implement programming and projects based on creative, collaborative work models to support economic progress in urban communities.
To address the unique challenges created by the unprecedented and far-reaching impact of the global pandemic, this year’s program primarily sought proposals that intended to develop or implement COVID-19 economic recovery strategies.
Mashpee native Ashley Stolba has been named undersecretary of community development by Massachusetts Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy.
âIâm excited to join Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy and his team to partner with municipal leadership around the commonwealth, our partners in the development community and agencies across state government, with a principal focus on community development,â Ms. Stolba said.
Ms. Stolba attended Mashpee Middle-High School before she went to the University of Miami in 2003 and earned her bachelorâs degree in business administration. After graduation in 2007, she earned her juris doctorate degree from Suffolk University Law School.