affordable housing

Cape Cod legislators have been advocating for the designation, allows tourism-heavy communities — where many homes are seasonal and housing costs are high — to use new policy tools to support year-round housing.

The town's purchase of a single-family home for affordable housing could become a model for other towns. But the deal hinged on altruistic homeowners selling their house to the Chatham Affordable Housing Trust well below market rate.

A law signed last year created the designation to help tourism-heavy towns ease the burden of high housing costs for year-round residents.

Buying a home has gotten more expensive, especially in high-priced markets like Cape Cod and the Islands. But what if you could buy a house for less than $300,000? CAI’s Jennette Barnes has this story about one family's experience buying an affordable home on Cape Cod.

Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod has announced seven new affordable homes will be built on the Cape in three different towns.

With just over a month left to allocate remaining American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds before the December 31 deadline, the Barnstable County Board of Regional Commissioners approved grant agreements for two projects that will help address the housing crisis on the Cape.

How the Affordable Homes Act will affect Cape Cod was the focus of the annual Housing to Protect Cape Cod summit Thursday in Hyannis.

The Nantucket select board approved the warrant for a special town meeting in September that may decide the fate of short-term rentals on the island.

One effort involves creating pre-approved housing plans that towns and developers can use to speed up the permitting and construction of affordable housing projects. About a dozen different types of housing units will be undertaken, including duplexes and accessory dwelling units.

Gov. Maura Healey supports the fee as a local option to support housing initiatives; it would only be implemented in towns that approve it. But a statewide real estate group say the fee is a tax that increases the cost of housing.