'Every bit helps': Chatham tries a new model for affordable housing
The town's purchase of a single-family home for affordable housing could become a model for other towns. But the deal hinged on altruistic homeowners selling their house to the Chatham Affordable Housing Trust well below market rate.
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Massachusetts lags in housing production despite units added in Healey’s term
More than 90,000 housing units have been completed or entered development since Gov. Maura Healey took office, she said Wednesday, chipping away at the state’s estimated need for 220,000 homes by the end of the decade. -
Massachusetts home sales, prices continue to rise in June
Single-family home sales were up 5.5% across Massachusetts in June and, at the halfway point in 2025, are up 3% over the same stretch last year, real estate market analysts said Tuesday. -
A veterans housing project almost fell through amid funding cuts and tariffs
The Worcester County renovation effort is back on track thanks to the state agreeing to fill gaps created by — and in response to — the Trump administration's policies. -
New England's first public housing complex is getting a makeover
All 1,016 units at the Mary Ellen MacCormack housing development in South Boston will be replaced over the course of two decades. -
Median home sale price clears $666,000 in Massachusetts
The median sale price for a single-family home in Massachusetts climbed in May to a number that might be a fitting representation of the devilish process of trying to buy a home here: just more than $666,000.
Priced Out
Competition for housing has driven up home prices to record levels across Massachusetts. Some of the biggest gains have happened in communities where residents can least afford to pay more. GBH News is exploring the impact in the series Priced Out: The fight for housing in Massachusetts.
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Still getting trapped in Boston public housing elevators
The Housing Authority said it plans to start repairs in the coming months but doesn’t have enough money to address all the elevator needs. -
To build housing, Boston gives away land Black and brown families once owned
Boston has launched an ambitious project to help small, local, minority-owned developers build affordable housing on Dorchester vacant lots. But some of those lots were taken from Black and Latino families decades ago. -
MGH distributes $18M to support affordable housing in Greater Boston
The funding is part of a total of $62 million in community funds state-mandated in relation to a $2 billion expansion of MGH campus in downtown Boston. -
Residents say owner of Auburn mobile home parks has made life a 'living nightmare'
Tenants filed a class action lawsuit against Parakeet Communities, accusing the company of illegally deceiving and exploiting them. -
NH is getting older, but its housing supply isn't keeping up. In Rochester, two new projects are filling that need.
New Hampshire’s aging population and ongoing housing shortage are making it hard for seniors to find affordable homes that fit their needs.
