Annual town meetings are a great opportunity for each of us to influence housing decisions in our towns. Your voice makes a difference in what kind of housing gets built and how millions of dollars of public funds get spent. [...]
Bob Murphy, owner of the Portside Tavern in Hyannis. Every other week, a 40-pound box of fresh chicken arrives at Angel House, like clockwork. It’s delivered by Housing Assistance Board Member Ron Winner and donated by his friend [...]
Social media design example for housing advocacy by 180 Degrees Consulting This spring, a group of students from various marketing, design, social science and management disciplines conducted a study of ways that Housing Assistance could use social media [...]
At this year’s Oysters & Champagne, there will be an opportunity for guests to give in support of our mission. Longtime Housing Assistance donors Missy and Dave McGraw are already committed to doing so and will make a significant donation [...]
The top tier of Housing Assistance’s Loyalty Circle is the Quarter Century Club, an exclusive list of donors who have supported our agency for 25 consecutive years or more. Quarter Century Club Members, Hannah and Larry Langsam In [...]
Since the end of last March through May 21, Housing Assistance has awarded over $3 million in financial assistance to prevent 671 households on Cape Cod and the Islands from becoming homeless. The figures demonstrate the widespread impact the pandemic [...]
Register Now! If you’ve ever wondered how to get educated and involved in changing housing policy, or if you already are involved in housing advocacy and looking to engage with other like-minded individuals, Housing Assistance Corporation encourages you [...]
A few hundred feet from Melissa Harris’ front porch, she can watch as boats of all shapes and sizes go by along the Cape Cod Canal. “It’s literally a dream come true,” she said a little over a month after [...]
Editorial by Alisa Magnotta We’ve all seen the news about skyrocketing housing prices in our region since the pandemic hit. That has made our longstanding housing crunch even more severe. We simply do not have enough housing at an affordable [...]
On the first night that Carriage House opened as a family shelter in August of 1989, Marty Wass was the only staff on duty. “It was myself and one other resident,” she recalled. Since that time, she has remained a [...]
Since last March, Housing Assistance has approved over $1.48 million in financial assistance to keep more than 400 households on Cape Cod and the Islands in their homes. “Without this safety net, they would all be at risk of homelessness [...]
A little more than two weeks before the start of winter, students enrolled in the Plymouth Police Academy stopped by Housing Assistance to donate over two dozen coats and blankets for the region’s homeless. Plymouth Police Academy Winter Coat [...]
Children’s education was important to Susan Royer. She embraced this cause as the Vice President and Executive Director of Education and Research at Sesame Workshop. She also was passionate about supporting society’s most vulnerable. As an elder at the Presbyterian [...]
This January perhaps more than any other has been a time for Housing Assistance to pause, review the accomplishments and challenges of the past year, and set ambitious goals for the year ahead. Distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines has begun, [...]
Even before the pandemic hit our economy, Cape Cod was suffering from an extreme lack of rental properties for our workforce. In Barnstable, we had a vacancy rate of less than 1%, when real estate experts consider a 7% vacancy [...]
Even before the pandemic hit, the housing crisis on Cape Cod was at a tipping point. One indication could be seen in this statistic: pre-COVID, 45 percent of renters in our region were either extremely cost burdened or burdened. “What [...]
A little over seven years ago, Keith Trott saw an ad for a part-time position at Housing Assistance overseeing maintenance at our Carriage House and Village at Cataumet family shelters. It came at the perfect time for Trott who had [...]
Addressing systemic racism and economic exclusion in housing zoning and policy have been a focus of our agency since our inception, as it has been for all who support affordable housing and housing equity. Our communities did not become segregated [...]
In the spring of 2015, Housing Assistance Board Member Ron Winner convinced Marianne Sullivan to organize a drive for our Welcome Home Gift Basket Program. “Ron has been a dear friend of our family for a long time,” explained Marianne, [...]
The Davis family, in Yarmouth Even before Danielle and Jarrek Davis learned they had been selected as one of three lottery winners for the Yarmouth Buydown Program, they had already started looking at homes to purchase. “We were [...]
