Governor Charlie Baker and a host of partners on Wednesday awarded $5 million in capital grants to 28 communities under the Housing Choice Initiative and presented 14 communities with Housing Choice designations.
As part of the awards, Chelsea was announced for a $250,000 grant.
The City of Chelsea will use funding for a proposed capital project focused on pedestrian enhancements along Orange Street, directly adjacent to a new, neighborhood scale housing opportunity on two City owned parcels and to an existing Chelsea Housing Authority complex and other dense, residential dwellings.
The grant will help the City’s new program that enables the Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF) to embark on developing vacant and City-owned lots – the first of such just getting started on Orange Street.