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By JAMES PENTLAND

HOLYOKE — Dozens gathered outside the Appleton Mill site on a chilly Monday morning to celebrate the launch of Winn Development’s $55.3 million housing project. “Everyone talks about affordable housing,” said company president and managing partner...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Voters will not be asked next year whether Massachusetts should revive local-option rent control after organizers working on a 2024 ballot question suspended their campaign late Friday.After facing pushback from other housing justice and progressive...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — A Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied a request to put a temporary hold on the Healey administration’s plan to cap the number of families in the state’s strained emergency shelter system.The decision followed an emergency court hearing...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Even as policies, programs and spending included in Gov. Maura Healey’s $4 billion Affordable Homes Act are being strongly supported by Amherst officials as a means of ramping up housing production, the governor is being advised that...

By CHRIS LISINSKI and SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Shortly before a court hearing challenging the Healey administration’s allegedly “rushed” changes to the shelter system, officials filed new emergency regulations seeking to enable a temporary hard cap on the number of families that can be...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — With the Nov. 7 city election just around the corner, the next City Council will face a number of issues, and one of those concerns at the top of many voters’ minds is affordable housing.With a $30.4 million pitch by a Needham developer,...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Framing her new legislation as “historic” and “urgent,” Gov. Maura Healey detailed a wide-ranging $4 billion-plus housing bill Wednesday at several stops throughout the state, including Springfield, and speculated that its passage could...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — The developer proposing a multimillion dollar housing and retail complex at the former Tasty Top site on Route 10 has secured an agreement to purchase two lots opposite of the proposed project, as part of an effort to create a four-way...

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 ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — Christiana Haramut has dealt with some of the same issues at her rental apartment inside a 113-year-old building near downtown for years — moldy ceilings, leaking drainage pipes and drafty windows, to name just some of the issues.Though her...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Planning Board approved a site plan Thursday for a six-story affordable housing project at 27 Crafts Ave., clearing a key hurdle for the 30-unit building to rise from behind City Hall in the coming years. Valley Community...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Two significant projects — a new four-story hotel on Conz Street and a six-story building behind City Hall for affordable housing — are scheduled to go before the Planning Board for review Thursday night.Hotelier Mansour Ghalibaf is...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A prime piece of property in the heart of downtown, vacant for four years, is set to go up for sale this fall.The city plans to sell the former site of the Hampshire County Register of Deeds at 33 King St. to a third party to build a new...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A North Amherst development that will include 30 affordable homes in 15 duplexes, giving home-ownership opportunities to families, is being financially supported by the Amherst Affordable Housing Trust.The trust voted 5-2 on Aug. 10 to...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — With the flip of a switch, Sanderson Place’s solar array kicked on last Wednesday 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 SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — All of the town’s more than 5,000 rental units would be inspected at least twice a decade for building and health code compliance rather than waiting for a complaint to prompt an inspector to investigate under a proposed revamp of rules...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity’s wall-raising ceremony at an affordable housing development at 278 Burts Pit Road on Tuesday was nearly 30 years in the making. Formerly part of the now-demolished Northampton State Hospital, the...

By JAMES PENTLAND

SOUTH HADLEY — Town officials are encouraging residents to submit comments on a new five-year housing plan that was the subject of a public forum late last month.Known as a housing production plan, the process began last summer with the formation of a...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A green revolution may soon be coming for city buildings as the City Council eyes adoption of a new building code that discourages the use of fossil fuels at the same time as nonprofit affordable home developers are constructing...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Valley Community Development Corporation revealed preliminary plans Monday for a new affordable housing development that would provide 30 new studio apartments for low-income residents in a six-story building on Crafts Avenue behind...