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Tag: Great Barrington Affordable Housing Trust

News

Construct, Lenox and GB offer emergency rental assistance during COVID-19 pandemic

Both housing trusts are allocating funds received from the local Community Preservation Act surcharge and granted to the trust in previous annual town meetings.

by Terry Cowgill
Posted on April 10, 2020
News

Affordable Housing Trust apologizes for lack of communication about development plan

If approved, the town wouldn’t close on the property until July. If taxpayers rejected the funding, then there would be no project at all, or the trust would have to identify another site.

by Terry Cowgill
Posted on February 10, 2020
Letters

Affordable housing misconceptions addressed

In a letter to the editor, Jonathan Hankin writes, “The Trust has a binding purchase and sale agreement that is contingent upon approval of the funding for the purchase by the May Annual Town Meeting.”

by Letter to the editor
Posted on January 9, 2020
News

Angry Housatonic residents assail CPC for funding of affordable housing property

It was standing-room only as dozens of angry residents of the Housatonic section of Great Barrington, including a former selectman, vented their feelings about the committee’s consideration of funding a proposal from the town affordable housing trust to acquire land for housing.

by Terry Cowgill
Posted on January 7, 2020
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