MassHousing Blog

Homeownership Preservation Roundtable in Barnstable

MassHousing will host a Homeownership Preservation and Community Stabilization Roundtable in Barnstable on Monday, February 25 at 10 a.m. The event, which is being hosted by the Housing Assistance Corporation in Hyannis, will cover such topics as awareness campaigns, community outreach and education, and ongoing stabilization efforts underway in Barnstable. Along with MassHousing staff, others in attendance will include public officials and community leaders.

For more information on the event, contact MassHousing’s Maureen Moriarty at 617.306.9840 or Angelo Nuby at 857.472.9010.

CCRI tops 1,000 units, $4 million awarded

With four recently approved awards totaling nearly $230,000, MassHousing's Center for Community Recovery Innovations (CCRI) has now provided more than $4 million in grants to create and preserve 1,042 units of affordable sober housing across the Commonwealth since 1999.

CCRI is a nonprofit subsidiary of MassHousing that provides gap funding for the creation and preservation of affordable sober housing units, and grants for supportive services. The four grants recently approved will help create 52 units of sober housing in Brockton, Chelsea, Weymouth and Worcester.