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Community Supported Housing Strategies

Housing Roundtable FRCOG, April 8, 2019

Katy Lacy, Senior Project Manager klacy@mhp.net

MHP is a quasi-public agency started in 1985 with the goal of using private investment to bring more affordable housing to Massachusetts

• Permanent Financing for Affordable Housing
• ver $1.1 billion for the financing of 22,000 rental units
• ONE Mortgage Program

Over 19,300 low- and moderate-income families have purchased their first homes with over $3.1 billion in private financing

• Community Assistance
• Center for Housing Data

About MHP

For information on registration and agenda, contact Katie Bosse at Kbosse@mhp.net

Accessory Dwelling Units: Detached, Attached or Within Primary Dwelling

3-2 Family Homes

Mansfeild, MA (by-Right) Lawrence MA (by-Right) Somerville, MA Single Family to Duplex

Reducing Minimum Lot Size

If Massachusetts built new housing at an average of 4 units per acre -- consistent with other states -- we could build enough additional housing to meet demand while consuming less land and preserving more open space.

Source: http://www.massgrowth.net/writable/resource s/document/cape_ann_report.pdf

Communities that have done this recently:

• Ashburnam
• Northampton
• Sturbridge
• Beverly
• Dennis
• Montague
• Provincetown

Development of Non-Conforming Lots for Affordable Housing

Town Of Dennis Pre-existing lot (on record as of 2003) 10,000 sf minimum lot size 3-bedroom maximum Special Permit Required

Mixed-Use, “Top of Shop”

“Cluster Zoning”: FRD, OSRD, OSD

Rocky Hill, Northampton (Co-Housing)

Cottages at River Hill-”Starter Homes”

Katywil, Colrain –Cluster Subdivision

• Allows for flexible design
• Requires open space preservation
• Typically Uses “Base” density $$
• Minimum Lot Size can be an

impediment-Northampton recently reduced

Planned Unit Development (PUD, PURD, PRD)

Pulpit Hill Co-Housing, Amherst (PURD)

• Dimensional Flexibility
• Increased density (# of Units)
• Can require Smaller Units
• Typically Overlay Districts (Special

Permits)

• Can Allow Mix of Uses
• Does not always require open-space

set-aside Riverwalk “Cottage Community” Concord

Leverett

Homeownership Assistance Program

Max purchase price: $275,000 Up to 20% ($50,000) of sale price Managed by Regional Housing Authority

Norfolk MAHT

Small Scale Homeownership

20+ homes

$300k range

3/year

All on SHI

Sold for $155k in 2015 Sold for $140k in 2014

Sudbury MAHT

Home Preservation Program

Identify house Negotiate price

Lottery

$180,000+ average subsidy

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Our Lady of Mercy / Oakley

• 18 Units / 1.5 acres
• 4 Sub-districts / Housing Mix
• All Rental-25% Affordable
• Belmont Housing Trust

Smaller 40R Districts Belmont, MA: A Smaller 40R

Senior Housing: Think Regionally

• 11.2-acre site purchased by the Town of

Eastham

• 65 Units Senior Housing
• 11 units @ 30 percent of AMI
• 39 units @ 60 percent of AMI
• 15 units@ 90% AMI
• 3 units will be for adults with disabilities
• Supported with CPA funds from Wellfleet,

Eastham, and Orleans

• Multiple financing sources, including MHP

LIP 40B: A Useful Tool Local Initiative Project (LIP) Comprehensive Permit (40B)

Bringing it all together…..

Goshen Senior Housing 10 affordable units (rental) HillTown CDC Comprehensive Permit (40B) Financing

• $130,000 CPA funds from Town
• CEDAC Funds for Land Acquisition
• Community Scale Housing Initiative Funds from DHCD/Affordable Housing Trust Fund
• MHP Permanent Financing

Community Scale Housing Initiative (CHSI)

• Passed in 2018
• Limited to Municipalities < 200,000
• Projects 5-20 units
• Minimum 20% Affordable
• $200,000 Subsidy per Unit
• TDC< $350,000
• Funds from MassHousing and DHCD

Scotts Grove, West Tisbury (9 units) Herring Brook Senior Housing, Norwell (18 units)

Contact: Lynn Sheilds or Terry Farmer Lshields@Masshousing.com (617-854- 1381) Theresa.farmer@state.ma.us (617-573- 1326).

Regional Housing Services Offices