Commonwealth Builder Program News Today

Mass. home sales spring to life in April

The empty Polish Community Club on Linden Street in Pittsfield could become home to “Westside Village" — 40 units of “affordable, attainable housing” for first-time buyers.

LOWELL — State Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities Secretary Ed Augustus took a tour of in-process and pre-development housing projects that will add nearly 300 new units to the city’s housing stock within a quarter-mile area around City Hall.

LOWELL — More affordable housing may soon be coming to South Lowell if the Lowell Housing Authority's on-again, off-again River’s Edge housing development receives legislative approval to move forward with construction of the final phase of the project that began in 2006.

The AHA will kick-start the production of over 40,000 new homes and preserve thousands more existing units in Massachusetts over the next five years.

MassHousing on Monday announced $44.6 million in financing for six new homeownership development projects across the state, including two in Dorchester and one in Mattapan. The local projects are 120-122 Hancock St. in Dorchester, 270 Talbot Ave. in Dorchester, and the Preserve at Olmsted Green in Mattapan, a large project on the site of a former state hospital property.

RK Centers acquired a 415K SF grocery-anchored shopping center in Attleboro for $70M, plus the rest of Greater Boston's top commercial real estate transactions.

MassHousing, Boston, Salem and Worcester have introduced novel programs using American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to create and preserve affordable housing following the U.S....

Gubernatorial candidates Maura Healey and Geoff Diehl both commit to working with community development corporations at a forum in Worcester.

The bill includes funding for various health, environmental, technological and housing initiatives.