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| 昆士市長柯奇(Tom Koch)表示將要蓋新的昆士市警察局。 |
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| 麻州長透露聯邦政府將發出500萬劑強生疫苗，麻州估計可得到 數以十萬計的強生疫苗。 |
昆士市的「比爾神父之家(Father
Bill's & Main Spring)」遷至原址對街，重建為包括100個流浪漢床位，以及住宅單位的發展計劃，將經由麻州政府的「住宅選擇」計畫，以及住宅及經濟發展廳(DHCD)的支持性住宅獎助等項目，共獲得400萬元補助。
查理貝克表示，麻州內房屋昂貴的原因之一，就是因為建造量、供應量不足，市面住宅短缺。他上任以來一直致力改善這一現象。麻州政府指出，查理貝克在2017年推出，2021年1月簽署成法的「住宅選擇」計畫，為市鎮提供技術及經費援助，預定到2025年時，為麻州增加13萬5000個住宅單位。
麻州政府在一份新聞稿中稱，從2015年開始，麻州政府已斥資超過14億元建造可負擔住宅，以致少建成或保護了2萬個住宅單位，其中包括18,000個可負擔住宅。2018年查理貝克還簽署了18億元，這歷年來金額最高的住宅債券法案，用於建造及保留可負擔住宅。今年查理貝克又簽署了名為「促進成長合作法(An
Act Enabling Partnerships for Growth)」的經濟發展法案，並經由「麻州工作基礎架構項目(MassWorks
Infrastructue Program)」，支持建造17,000個綜合收入住宅單位等等。
「比爾神父之家(Father
Bill's & Main Spring)」原本座落在昆士市Broad街38號。位於該址的樓宇將夷為平地，已建造新的昆士市警察局及公安大樓。，「比爾神父之家」將遷進對街的2棟新大樓內。其中將先建造的那一棟大樓，會有可辦各項培訓活動的日間中心，以及緊急庇護所，醫療門診等。
另一棟將在第二階段施工的大樓，會有30個供人永久性居住的小公寓。
「比爾神父之家」執行長John
Yazwinski表示，整個計畫預計耗資2400萬元。麻州政府補助的400萬元，將用於第一階段施工。該機構還需另外找到700萬元的私營機構投資。目前該機構已籌得320萬元。
被稱為「住宅資源中心(Housing
Resource Center)」的這第一階段大樓，預定今年稍後開工。
Baker-Polito
Administration Awards Funding, Vouchers to Seven Affordable Housing Projects
for Vulnerable Communities
Supportive housing provides critical services to support chronically homeless individuals, individuals in recovery and formerly homeless individuals flourish
3/31/2021
- Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development
- Housing and Community Development
- Office of Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn
Polito
QUINCY — Today, Governor Charlie Baker,
Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, and Housing and Economic Development Secretary
Mike Kennealy joined House Speaker Ronald Mariano, Quincy Mayor Tom
Koch, Senator John Keenan, and advocates to celebrate the production and
preservation of 67 units of supportive housing for vulnerable
populations, as well as 100 shelter beds, through $13.7 million in
capital funding and project-based vouchers. Today’s event was
held at the future home of the Father Bill's & MainSpring Housing
Resource Center, which has received both supportive housing funding and a
Housing Choice Community Capital Grant for design and engineering work.
Each year, DHCD distributes capital funds as
well as project-based vouchers to pay for supportive services through a
competitive process administered by the agency’s Supportive Housing for
Vulnerable Populations program. These supportive services serve veterans,
older adults, persons with disabilities, individuals and families who have
experienced homelessness, as well as unaccompanied youth. Some state
capital subsidies have also funded emergency shelter beds, including in this
most recent round.
“In 2018, our administration signed the
largest affordable housing legislation in Massachusetts history, and we
have worked hard to invest in the production and preservation of thousands of
affordable units in every region of the Commonwealth,” said Governor
Charlie Baker. “Thanks to our partners in the Legislature and local
leaders, we are ensuring that supportive housing remains a
key component of our broader strategy to increase production.”
“Permanent supportive housing provides
necessary services to our most vulnerable populations, and I am so proud that
we have invested in the development of hundreds of units of this type of
affordable housing across the Commonwealth available to the families and
individuals that have the greatest need,” said Lt. Governor Karyn
Polito. “Every project in today's round will result in housing with
tailored services that will create an environment that will allow people to
thrive.”
The Department of Housing and Community
Development (DHCD), working with the Community Economic Development Assistance
Corporation (CEDAC), will make available approximately $2.6 million
in National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) funding, dedicated to
households at 30% area median income or less; $10.7 million in state bond
funds through the Housing Innovations Fund (HIF) and the Housing
Stabilization Fund (HSF); and 57 state project-based housing
vouchers to qualified and experienced sponsors. CEDAC, which
manages HIF, works closely with DHCD to administer these rounds and review
applications for funding.
Supportive housing provides residents with
social and health services, including job training, case management, healthcare
coordination, addiction recovery resources, and more. All 67 units
are affordable to low and extremely low-income people. There are an
additional 20 units that are being supported through vouchers only but are
eligible to seek additional state funding in the future. Since 2015, the
Baker-Polito Administration has supported the preservation and production of hundreds
of supportive housing units.
“Solving our housing crisis requires housing
production of all types, including permanent supportive housing for
veterans, older adults, people in recovery, and individuals with
disabilities, as well as shelter beds for
those experiencing homelessness,” said Housing and Economic
Development Secretary Kennealy. “Thanks to this innovative
partnership involving DHCD, the city of Quincy, elected officials, and Father
Bill’s and MainSpring, the vision of meeting the needs of the most
vulnerable among us with a state-of-the-art facility is closer to
being a reality.”
“Our team has worked closely with incredible
partners like CEDAC to invest in projects that will meaningfully help a diverse
set of people who can thrive with support and housing they can afford,” said
Housing and Community Development Undersecretary Jennifer Maddox. “Our
department has been committed to keeping our investments in housing development
on track. Our housing crisis began before our current health crisis, and I am
proud we’ve been able to continue funding the development of new affordable
housing in every region and pass important zoning reform to make it easier for
communities to promote housing at the local level.”
In Quincy, DHCD is awarding $4 million
subsidy funds to Father Bill’s & MainSpring (FBMS) for the
construction the new Housing Resource Center that will be built across from the
organization’s current shelter for homeless individuals. This new
multi-use facility will incorporate approximately 100 shelter beds, onsite
supportive services, a respite care area, food preparation and dining
facilities, administrative offices, and a clinic. DHCD will support this
project with $4 million in subsidy funds. The City of Quincy is supporting
the project by granting FBMS a 99-year lease at $1 per year and a capital award
of $1 million in local housing trust funds, and successfully applied for a
Housing Choice Community Capital Grant to cover portions of design and
engineering services.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated many of
the longstanding issues that our cities and towns have faced, such as
homelessness,” said Speaker of the House Ronald J. Mariano. “The
grants awarded today will support organizations that serve our most vulnerable
residents and provide them with a path to safe, stable and dignified housing.
The Massachusetts House is proud to support the work of the awardees and
provide opportunities for them to expand their services. I am proud to have
worked alongside the Quincy delegation to help secure this grant for Father
Bill’s, and look forward to seeing the positive impact their future facility
will have in our community.”
“The Supportive Housing award, coupled with
local funding from the City of Quincy, allows Father Bill's and MainSpring to
move forward with its multi-use facility, which represents a new, more
comprehensive approach towards preventing homelessness in southern
Massachusetts,” said Senator John Keenan, Senate Chair of the Joint
Committee on Housing.
"Father Bill's
& MainSpring are an invaluable resource and advocate for our
community. Their innovative work in not only providing stable housing, but also
in their efforts in intervention and prevention work are critical to our
community members facing homelessness,” said Representative Tackey Chan.
“This grant money will make their new facilities a reality and allow their work
to be more broad-reaching."
"The innovative Father Bill’s and
Mainspring Housing Resource Center is going to be a life-changer for so many of
our most vulnerable community members in the City of Quincy,” said
Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch. “I’m proud to partner in this endeavor,
and deeply grateful to the Baker and Polito Administration for once
again seeing the value in a such a vital local project by granting it a
National Trust Fund Supportive Housing Award.”
“We want to end homelessness, not manage
it — and the Housing Resource Center will move us closer to that
goal,” said FBMS President & CEO John Yazwinski. “The HRC
is a solutions-based, proactive approach that meets individuals further
upstream in their housing crisis. By investing in day services that re-house
homeless individuals more quickly and prevent more people from entering
shelter, we will lower public costs, reduce reliance on shelter beds and
downtown spaces, and provide our neighbors in need with stability and a pathway
to self-sufficiency. Thank you to Governor Charlie Baker and his
administration, Speaker Ron Mariano and the Quincy state delegation, and Mayor
Thomas Koch and the Quincy City Council for supporting this innovative
approach. Together, our community is taking a leap forward in our fight to
end homelessness.”
“Congratulations to the non-profit
organizations receiving these supportive housing funding awards. Their work is
so necessary to providing housing and services to truly vulnerable populations
across the Commonwealth,” said Roger Herzog, the Executive Director of
the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC). “CEDAC
values our effective collaboration with the Baker-Polito Administration and its
Department of Housing and Community Development and its strong commitment to
the production of supportive housing through the eighth annual funding round
dedicated for this purpose.”
The Baker-Polito Administration has shown
a deep commitment to increasing the production of housing across all income
levels. Since 2015, the administration has invested more than $1.4 billion in
affordable housing, resulting in the production and preservation of more than 20,000
housing units, including 18,000 affordable units. In 2018, Governor Baker signed the largest housing bond
bill in Massachusetts history, committing more than $1.8 billion to
the future of affordable housing production and preservation. This year,
Governor Baker signed economic development legislation titled An
Act Enabling Partnerships for Growth that includes substantial new funding
for affordable and climate-resilient housing, as well as targeted zoning
reforms to advance new housing production. The administration has also
supported the development of more than 17,000 mixed-income housing units
through the successful MassWorks Infrastructure Program, reformed
the Housing Development Incentive Program, and
worked with communities to implement smart-growth development and planning
efforts.
Award Recipients:
37 Wales Street, Boston: The non-profit sponsor, Heading Home, will
demolish a structurally compromised building and construct a new, 23-unit
building. Located in Dorchester, the project will provide permanent supportive
housing to formerly homeless, extremely low-income (ELI) individuals. The
project also will be highly energy efficient. DHCD will support this project
with subsidy funds and 23 enhanced rental vouchers.
6 Quint Ave, Boston: 6 Quint is an existing, privately owned
lodging house in Allston. The non-profit sponsor, Allston-Brighton CDC, will
purchase and redevelop this property into 14 supportive housing units targeted
toward extremely low-income (ELI) individuals in the advanced stages of
addiction recovery. DHCD subsidy funds will support the acquisition and
renovation of this project. The Boston Housing Authority also is supporting 6
Quint with project-based rental vouchers.
Ashford Street, Boston: Ashford Street is an
existing 12-unit project featuring single-room occupancy (SRO) units
as well as studio and one-bedroom units. The sponsor is the non-profit
Allston-Brighton CDC. Located in Allston, the project serves extremely
low-income (ELI) individuals. DHCD funds will support the rehabilitation and
preservation of this project, including improved accessibility, with subsidy
funds and four rental vouchers. The Boston Housing Authority also is
supporting Ashford Street with 8 rental vouchers.
Father Bill’s Housing Resource Center, Quincy: This project, sponsored by non-profit Father
Bill’s and MainSpring (FBMS), consists of a new multi-use facility
next to its existing shelter facility. It will incorporate approximately
100 shelter beds, onsite supportive services, a respite care area, food
preparation and dining facilities, administrative offices, and a clinic. DHCD
will support this project with subsidy funds. The City of Quincy is
supporting the project by granting FBMS a 99-year lease at $1 per year and a
capital award of $1 million in local housing trust funds.
A Place to Live – 30 Winfield Street,
Worcester: The non-profit
sponsor, South Middlesex Opportunity Council (SMOC), will construct a new
three-story building for chronically homeless single adults. The building will
consist of 18 studio apartments for at-risk homeless individuals as well as
office space for full time case management and a community room. DHCD will
support 30 Winfield Street with subsidies and 10 state MRVPs. The City of
Worcester is providing $100,000 in local HOME funds as well as project-based
subsidies.
Amherst Supportive Studio, Amherst: Sponsored by the non-profit Valley CDC,
this project consists of the creation of 28 enhanced single-room occupancy
(SRO) units. The building, which will achieve Passive House certification, will
include one office for onsite property management and a separate office for a
Resident Services Coordinator. The site currently holds a single-family home
that will be demolished. The location is highly walkable, less than 1/2 mile to
the Town Center and numerous service providers. DHCD will provide the project with
10 MRVP vouchers to assist in the effort to house ten homeless
individuals.
New Point Acquisitions, Salem: North Shore Community Development Coalition
(NSCDC) will carry out substantial capital improvements, implement supportive
services, and convert 18 unrestricted units into affordable units for homeless
individuals. Located in the Point neighborhood close to Salem’s center, this
project consists of units divided across three, 3-story brick walk-up
buildings. The City of Salem is supporting the project with City Home funds of
$25,000, CPA funds of $100,000, CDBG funds of $25,000, and 8 rental
vouchers. DHCD will provide the project with 10 enhanced rental vouchers
to assist NSCDC’s efforts to house homeless families. NSCDC will apply to
DHCD for subsidy funds in future competitive funding
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