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By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Executive Office of Elder Affairs Secretary Elizabeth Chen visited with members of the state’s first regional senior services district on Thursday to talk about addressing the needs of the region’s seniors, including housing. Chen...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ASHFIELD — The Zoning Board of Appeals and Planning Board are looking to get creative around zoning to help address the need for housing.The two boards met with Franklin Regional Council of Governments Building Commissioner and Ashfield Zoning...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — The Healey administration wants to give cities and towns the power to impose a new fee on high-price real estate transactions and steer the revenue into affordable housing development, pitching a local-option transfer tax alongside more than...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — Residents and Selectboard members present at the board’s Monday meeting were reluctant to endorse a design that would reduce a planned six units of housing on First Street to five when the option was presented by Habitat for Humanity,...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — More than a dozen pre-applications have been reviewed by the Community Preservation Committee and given the OK to move forward in the application process, including a proposal to build 46 units of senior housing in the Legion Avenue...

By BELLA LEVAVI

With the implementation of statewide centralized screening, the Franklin County Regional Housing & Redevelopment Authority hopes to see improvement in the filling of its public housing units.This service, which is being provided by the Lawrence-based...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey has proposed using nearly $300 million in one-time funds to infuse the state’s strained emergency assistance shelter system and close a tax revenue shortfall.Healey filed a more than $2 billion budget last week to close the...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Housing and shelter experts from across Franklin and Hampshire counties recently joined legislative Housing Committee Chair Sen. Lydia Edwards on a tour of the region to discuss rural housing and shelter challenges and opportunities.“The...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Homes in Franklin County are being brought up to code with a new round of grants. Through the Community Development Block Grant Program, the Franklin County Regional Housing & Redevelopment Authority received $800,000 to be put toward rehabilitating...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — The town has received nearly $1.33 million in Community Development Block Grant funding to support eight initiatives.Montague is one of five Franklin County towns — with the others being Orange, Wendell, Charlemont and Bernardston — to...

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON — Nearly $2 million in federal funds will flow into Massachusetts and Boston city coffers to tackle the migrant housing crisis, with the money arriving just over a week after Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency due to strained...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — With a multimillion-dollar apartment renovation project underway, public health officials are grappling with complaints of rodents at Greenfield Gardens. “We’re working diligently to address people’s concerns,” said Caroline Murray,...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — With the flip of a switch on Wednesday, Sanderson Place’s solar array kicked on and set the senior housing facility on the road to energy independence.At the same time, the event marked Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics’ (PV Squared Solar),...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

ERVING — Town officials intend to finalize their request for proposals (RFP) for a senior housing development on Care Drive during the Senior Housing Committee’s next meeting on July 20, with hopes to release it this summer.The town will seek...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — Affordable housing projects in Greenfield and Turners Falls are receiving a boost as part of $8.1 million in grants awarded through MassHousing’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program.Montague-based Rural Development Inc. (RDI) and...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Without additional financial support, climate-friendly building regulations could “push homeownership out of reach” for some Massachusetts families, according to a new report from the the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of...

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — With an eye on the state’s mid-century greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments, Gov. Maura Healey has announced the launch of a “green bank” that she hopes will attract private investment and federal money to pay for building retrofits...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — As many as 50 rooms in the city are expected to be occupied in the coming days by families, immigrants and refugees who qualify for temporary shelter under the state’s Emergency Housing Assistance Program.Mayor Roxann Wedegartner said she...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A housing production plan is headed to the state government for final approval after getting the blessings of the Orange Selectboard and Planning Board.The Selectboard voted Wednesday evening to approve the housing plan — which is focused on...