Editorial by Alisa Magnotta Find out how you can get involved at our new website: HousingToProtectCapeCod.org While many people agree we need to create more housing diversity and affordability, when it comes to town reviews of specific projects, the process often [...]
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 [...]
By Alisa Magnotta — We say it a lot at Housing Assistance: housing is the foundation of everything a person wants to be and achieve. Without a stable place to live, it is incredibly difficult for people to continue [...]
State Representative Timothy Whelan with the plaque that will be placed at FORWARD at the Rock once it is finished next spring. When FORWARD at the Rock is completed next spring, a plaque will be hung in the [...]
The first thing you notice when you meet Daniel Coburn is the smile. At the end of June, that smile was on full display when Daniel became a first-time homeowner, purchasing an affordable house in Yarmouth. At the closing, Director [...]
Tara Wallace (middle) shared her story at Oysters & Champagne. She was one of four former clients who are now Housing Assistance Board members who attended they event. All four graduated from our Family Self-Sufficiency program managed by Jan [...]
With Cape Cod towns set to receive an influx of revenue from the state’s recent adoption of the short-term rental tax, Housing Assistance Corporation has joined together with three other organizations to ensure resources are allocated to fund the region’s future [...]
Are you a first-time homebuyer seeking to become a homeowner on Cape Cod? Applications are currently available for a new 3-bedroom, 2-bath single-family home that Falmouth Housing Trust is building at 72 Deer Pond Road in East Falmouth. "This is [...]
Stefanie Coxe (third from right) discusses Accessory Dwelling Unit bylaws during the Mid-Cape Municipal Peer Group meeting this summer. Modifying each town’s Accessory Dwelling Unit bylaw is not a panacea for Cape Cod’s housing issues, but it can help. [...]
High Meadows Townhomes represents the third and final phase of a 117-unit affordable housing project in Bourne that includes Canal Bluffs and Clay Pond Cove. Last year at this time, HAC and the Preservation Of Affordable Housing (POAH) took part [...]
Moriya Smith with Labouré College President Maureen Smith at her graduation last May. Moriya is now studying for her bachelor’s degree. Almost 20 years ago, when Moriya Smith was only a teenager, she became homeless, fending not only for herself, but her [...]
Matt Pitta (left), co-host of last month’s Shelter Cape Cod Telethon, interviews longtime HAC supporter Paul Hebert about the region’s housing issues. When Paul and Carolyn Hebert arrived on Cape Cod in 1981 with their three daughters Aimee, Mary and [...]
Two Angel House clients, Samantha (second from right) and Jeana (right), had an opportunity to share their powerful, touching stories on-air at HAC’s Shelter Cape Cod Telethon. Since last January, 30-year-old Samantha has been at HAC’s Angel House where she [...]
Community leaders take part in the Cape Housing Institute last fall. HAC and Community Development Partnership will be launching Advocacy Training next month for the general public. Cape Cod residents will get an opportunity to learn how to speak up [...]
Over the past nine years, Robert MacCready has headed up HAC’s finance department, but at the end of this month he will step down from his role at HAC where he first served as the agency’s director of finance and [...]
Jim and Helen Wick have been supporters of HAC for over 25 years. By the time Jim and Helen Wick moved to West Dennis in 1983, they were officially retired. Fast forward nearly 35 years later and [...]
With the stock market trading at all-time highs, and the possibility that the new tax reform package that was recently passed in Washington, D.C. may limit the benefit next year, now is a terrific time to donate stock to HAC [...]
