In a win for affordable housing advocates and tenants of Devenscrest Village in Ayer, the Devenscrest Tenants Association, housing advocate Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and state housing officials announced that a new buyer will keep families in their homes with rents they can afford.
Housing
Boston 1-bedroom rents jump, remain 3rd highest in U.S.
One-bedroom rent costs jumped in Boston in July, as national prices remained mostly steady, according to a new report.
State aims to turn its surplus properties into housing
LOWELL — The Healey-Driscoll administration threw open the doors to more housing in the commonwealth during an announcement at an inaugural Developers’ Fair held in Downtown Boston Monday morning.
State plans to close all hotel, motel shelters this summer
BOSTON — The state will close its remaining motel and hotel shelters this summer, Gov. Maura Healey announced Monday, as the governor and lawmakers have imposed restrictions on the emergency housing system over the past year and family enrollment has declined. Thirty-two hotel shelters remain, down from a peak of 100 in the summer of […]
‘The very best of a public-private partnership’: King Street Common breaks ground
LITTLETON — The groundbreaking ceremony for King Street Common, an expansive, campus-style development by the Lupoli Companies, took place on the site of the former IBM campus located at 550 King St. Monday afternoon.
Massachusetts housing trends: Homes, condos taken off market at faster rate than in 2024
Though the median single-family home price continues to jump in Massachusetts, housing units are being taken off the market at a faster rate than a year ago.
