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Archive for the 'affordable housing' categoryPine Street Inn wins funds for Upton St rehabAffordable Housing Funds Hit New England - By Ryan Clark, GlobeSt.com Best idea ever: tax the rich (aka, the other guy)If you read the papers at all, you know that there’s a proposal to levy a new tax on high-end home sales on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. The goal is to raise funds to pay for affordable housing construction. Affordable housing opportunity available in South BostonAccording to the Boston Redevelopment Authority, there are several “affordable housing” units available at the new Avenue 152 condo development, in South Boston. Affordable housing units available at NorthPointThere are a bunch of “affordable” housing units available at the recently completed NorthPoint project, near Lechmere Station, on the borders of Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston. Affordable housing opportunity at Wilkes PassageWhen a developer in Boston builds a large condo project (over 10 units, I think), it has to agree to set aside a certain percentage of units as “affordable”. This is somewhere in the 13% range. Whether or not this is a good thing is open to debate (to me, at least), but [...] NorthPoint rumored to be turned into Section 8 housingEven in your wildest dreams you couldn’t imagine something like this happening: |