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Register Now for the Walk for Hope

2022-03-01T18:23:56-05:00March 1st, 2022|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Registration is now open for individuals and teams who want to fundraise for Housing Assistance Corporation’s 4th Annual Walk for Hope. Scheduled for Sunday, May 22 at 1 pm, the event will return to an in-person format with walks [...]

More Projects Like Brewster Woods Needed to Address Housing Crisis

2021-09-23T12:12:08-04:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Housing Assistance CEO Alisa Magnotta (third from left) joined state and local officials in a groundbreaking for Brewster Woods in June. By this time next year, roughly 60 people will be settling into 30 new apartments that Housing [...]

New Carriage House Director Has Passion for Helping People Get Out of Crisis

2021-09-20T19:15:58-04:00September 15th, 2021|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Prior to coming to Housing Assistance as a case manager at our Scattered Sites shelter in Hyannis last September, Gemma Rehm spent over six years as a mental health specialist at Cape Cod Hospital. The similarities between the two roles, [...]

A Staggering $270,000 Raised at Oysters & Champagne

2021-09-20T15:10:23-04:00September 14th, 2021|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A special thanks to this year's Oysters & Champagne Fundraising Ambassadors, Cape Cod Five CEO Dorothy Savarese (from left), Cape Air CEO Dan Wolf, and Shepley Wood Products President Tony Shepley. In the middle of July, nearly 200 [...]

Oysters & Champagne Returns to the Wequassett

2021-12-20T17:53:08-05:00June 23rd, 2021|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A year after Housing Assistance made the difficult decision to postpone Oysters & Champagne, the event is making a triumphant return on Thursday, July 8 at the Wequassett Resort in Harwich. Announced last month, the event is already sold out [...]

Telethon for Hope Raises Over $55,000 for Housing Assistance

2021-10-22T10:59:06-04:00February 14th, 2021|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Mid-Cape Home Centers was the Telethon for Hope's top fundraising team, raising nearly $9,800 to support our work.  “We know that this year has been unlike any other and doesn’t look like anything we’ve been used to, that’s [...]

Brewster Woods Receives $1.68 Million MassWorks Grant

2020-02-07T15:11:48-05:00February 7th, 2020|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In recent years, Housing Assistance and POAH (Preservation of Affordable Housing) have been developing Brewster Woods, a project that will bring 30 new affordable apartments for families in the Lower Cape community. In November, the project took a huge step [...]

Editorial: Home is the Foundation of the American Dream

2019-12-02T12:12:19-05:00December 2nd, 2019|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

  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 [...]

Institute Offers Strategies to Address Housing Crisis

2019-11-26T16:26:28-05:00November 26th, 2019|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Massachusetts Secretary of Housing & Economic Development Mike Kennealy gives an update on the efforts the state is making to boost housing production in the Commonwealth at our 3rd Annual Cape Housing Institute. Nearly 100 municipal officials, community [...]

Editorial: Now’s the time — Let’s take control of our future

2019-08-15T12:44:29-04:00August 12th, 2019|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Over the past few years, I’ve seen a sea change in the way that people on Cape Cod are talking about our housing crisis, and taking action to address it. Across the region, even the stably housed now understand that [...]

Editorial: Help Preserve the Cape and Islands Communities We All Cherish

2019-03-11T15:08:20-04:00December 26th, 2018|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Living year-round on Cape Cod is not a place for the faint of heart or those who want to go fast. It’s a place where deep connections and a sense of community are sustained. It’s a place where awe-inspiring beauty [...]

Editorial: The High Cost of Doing Nothing

2021-04-22T09:45:49-04:00November 7th, 2018|Categories: Blog, HACBeat, News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

  At Housing Assistance Corporation, we have been on the frontlines of providing affordable housing since 1974. Today, our challenges have never been greater. The shrinking supply of year-round housing is getting worse. It is impacting families, businesses, and municipalities. [...]

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