Dottie Anderson, the first person to move into the new Brewster Woods affordable housing complex in Brewster, deftly wielded the scissors at a ribbon cutting ceremony on May 9 as a crowd of onlookers cheered. Cutting the bright red [...]
In this issue: Cover story: Residents and Town Leaders Explore Solutions to Housing Crisis at First Town Huddles Donor Spotlight: Dellbrook | JKS Complex Housing Issues Can Stir Difficult Emotions - Editorial by Alisa Magnotta Workshop Offers Tips and Tools for [...]
DONOR SPOTLIGHT | Cape Cod 5 Leaders of the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank see the housing crisis from many angles, whether it’s first-time homebuyers who are priced out of the market or employees who have to endure [...]
Are you looking for other ways to support Housing Assistance Corporation beyond writing a check or using a credit card? We asked three Housing Assistance supporters to tell why they chose three tax-efficient ways to give. Qualified Charitable Distributions [...]
From left to right: Patricia Mitrokostas, Catherine Clark and Kathryn Eident Housing Assistance recently named Patricia Mitrokostas, Catherine Clark and Kathryn Eident to senior positions within the organization. Patricia Mitrokostas was hired as senior director of grants [...]
When Liz Belcher, information client services manager for Housing Assistance, was asked to help with the organization’s efforts to assist the Venezuelan migrants, it brought back a lot of memories for her family. Her mother, Allison Alewine, performed a [...]
Will you embrace the season of giving and help our many neighbors in need? Our 19th Annual Telethon for Hope starts on November 28, as we engage our supporters virtually throughout a 12 Day Give-A-Thon. Using our social media [...]
It made national news in September when 48 migrants, many of them Venezuelan, landed on Martha’s Vineyard in two charter planes sent by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. As the only local contractor designated by the state Department of Housing [...]
By Alisa Magnotta Cape Cod is losing nearly 1,000 households a year. Many of these households are making $100,000. That bleak figure is expected to rise to 1,500 households annually over the next two years. This data is from [...]
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 [...]
The Cornell students with children from The Village at Cataumet at the Hyannis Youth & Community Center. By CORNELL STUDENTS […]
Charlene (left) with HAC’s AnnMarie Torrey. By CORNELL STUDENTS […]
Cornell University students Joon Jeong (from left), Allison Laphen, Irene Bae, Anum Chaudhry, Breanna Ross and Nupur Bhatt spent their alternative spring break “hijacking” HACbeat, creating content for this month’s newsletter. Staff in HAC’s communications and development department have the [...]
“A minimal amount of human contact can change a life,” said Greg Bar, manager of HAC’s NOAH Shelter, about a new volunteer project at NOAH Shelter. One night Bill Dado had a dream he was working with the homeless in [...]
Every four years, Horizons for Homeless Children “reinstalls” one of the children’s playspaces in the family shelters at Housing Assistance Corporation. So, this fall, Horizons staffers worked on the playspace at the Village at Cataumet, the family shelter in Cataumet.The [...]
For those of you who don’t know, HAC has a farm. It is a small farm, in Sandwich, where there is a 44-plot community garden, a 1.5-acre market garden, three goats and 22 chickens. The caretaker, who lives in the [...]
As the CEO of an organization that manages a variety of different programs, all of which help people in need of a decent home, I am always looking for ways to be more effective. Often I, we, have a pretty [...]
Editorial by: Rick Presbrey, HAC CEO/Founder […]
