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Source Nuestra CDC |
Adams Court, Mattapan
Nuestra CDC, working in partnership with Mattapan CDC, performed a substantial rehabilitation of the Adams Court buildings to modernize units and preserve affordable rental housing in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston.
Adams Court is an important preservation project, particularly in Mattapan, where affordable rental housing is scarce. This Home Funders project updated 45 units, with 10 of these available for extremely low income families. |

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Brian J. Honan Apartments, Allston
Lamonte is a 39 year-old social worker with a wife and two children. He and his wife are also deaf, raising two hearing children. With one salary between them, finding a decent, stable and affordable apartment was impossible. In just one year they moved three times. Enter the Brian J. Honan Apartments in Allston developed by the Allston-Brighton CDC. The couple now lives in one of the 50 new affordable rental units. “I’m not sure you can imagine the relief and joy we felt,” notes mom Shonnese. “At least now we feel like we have a fighting chance.”
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Source DBEDC |
Dudley Village, Dorchester
Dudley Village will offer 50 units of new construction, multi-family rental housing built on public land and on private parcels that the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (DBEDC) has bought adjacent to their Cottage Brook Apartments, which is a 147 unit multi-family in the core of their service area in the Uphams Corner-Dudley Street corridor. Formerly the site of a bar, this development will transform five parcels, create three common green spaces, a tot lot, and five commercial spaces. DBEDC is working closely with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) and their land trust. |

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Ruggles
Preservation, Roxbury
Another successful Home Funders loan, delivered through the Massachusetts
Housing Partnership, has facilitated the redevelopment of a Ruggles Street
and Shawmut Avenue property that went from 40 to 43 units, including nine
units for ELI families. Jeanne Pinado, Charlotte Golar Ritchie of the City
of Boston, Mayor Menino, Jane Wallis Gumble who heads the state Department
of Housing & Community Development, and many others attended the ribbon cutting ceremony in October 2006. |

Photo by Greig Cranna |
Acushnet Commons,
New Bedford
Acushnet Commons is an award winning project, receiving the Fannie
Mae Foundation's Maxwell Award from a nationwide pool of 70 projects.
The award was given in the "Innovative Partnership" category
for the project’s partnership with a childcare/family support
provider. Opened in 2006 with 12 units of housing for the New
Bedford community with 6 designated for ELI families, funding
came through numerous sources including a Home Funders loan from
MHP. |

Photo by Greig Cranna |
Egleston
Crossing, Roxbury
The heart of Roxbury’s Egleston Square gets a lift from two Urban
Edge buildings – a mixed-use redevelopment project that includes
64 affordable housing units incorporated into a green building-design that
will significantly cut energy usage.
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Photo by Greig Cranna |
Haverhill
Street YWCA, Lawrence
Teen mothers and homeless families have reason to cheer in Lawrence Massachusetts.
Fina House, located at the Greater Lawrence YWCA, opened in 2005 and provides
17 units of transitional and permanent housing for female-headed households.
The new facility, an expansion of the YWCA’s long-standing transitional
housing services, received pre-development funding from Home Funders. |

Photo by Greig Cranna
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Essex
Street, Gloucester
Pond View Village Apartments on Essex Street in Gloucester brings
43 affordable rental units online along with 15 condominiums, priced affordably
for qualified first-time home buyers. This project is for the adaptive re-use
and new construction of at the former LePage Glue Factory site. It consists
of 3 buildings and has 8 Section-8 Rent Assisted Units. |

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Washington Street, Chelsea
HarborCOV’s project in Chelsea offers 24 affordable housing units, all available for ELI families. This project was funded in part by Home Funders through a CEDAC loan. |
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"What I’ve learned is
that I have to keep setting goals. I got into good housing. Then
I started working two jobs. Now I need to get my GED.” - Home
Funders Tenant
“Besides giving me a place to live, I now have people
I can ask for help. When I didn’t know what to do about
my child skipping school I was able to get suggestions from
other residents.” - Home Funders Tenants
“Now that I have a home I’ve been able to find
a job. I work as a day care assistant. This is great because
I can take my youngest with me. He
still needs reassurance that we’ll be okay. I think his being close
to me at work has calmed him down.” - Home Funders Tenant
“People don’t realize how crazy life is when you
are living in relative’s
living rooms. Now my health is better. My kids are doing better in school
and we can be a real family.” - Home Funders Tenant |
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