The City of Newton is a participating and lead member of the WestMetro HOME Consortium – a 13-member association of towns and municipalities (Bedford, Belmont, Brookline, Concord, Framingham, Lexington, Natick, Needham, Newton, Sudbury, Waltham, Watertown, and Wayland) that receives federal funding (HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funds to assist low…
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The Finance Committee will vote on a recommendation by the Community Preservation Committee to allocate $3,000,000 in CPA funding for the West Newton Armory Project – to create 43 units of affordable housing. Specifically, the request is for $2,373,470.71 coming from the FY22 Unrestricted Funds, and the remaining $626,529.29 to…
The CPA has recommended the reallocation of $475,876.14 in unused CPA funds remaining in the Covid-19 Emergency Housing Assistance Project Account for use in another CPA-eligible project in the future. The City Council had authorized two separate proposals in 2020 and 2021 to use $3.2 million in CPA funding for…
The Newton Affordable Housing Trust will hold its first meeting online this Wednesday, June 29 at 6:00 p.m. (agenda and Zoom link). The Committee consists of the Mayor, Ward 6 at-large Councilor Alicia Bowman, Mayoral appointees Tamirirashe Gambiza, Ann Houston, Jason Korb, and Peter Sargent, and Community Preservation Committee member…
Nine Newton City Councilors jointly submitted comments to the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) on its draft guidelines for implementing a new Section 3A of M.G.L. c. 40A (the Zoning Act). This was part of an economic development bill requiring communities served by the MBTA to have at…