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BOSTON - October 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Thaddeus Miles, MassHousing's Director of Public Safety, has been awarded the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award for his public safety efforts at housing communities and their surrounding neighborhoods across Massachusetts.

BOSTON - October 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The former Executive Director and Assistant Executive Director of the Chelsea Housing Authority (CHA) as well as an inspection consultant were charged today for their roles in rigging the inspection process for federally-funded housing units at the CHA.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Thomas M. Menino today joined U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan and the Dorchester community to celebrate the start of a massive revitalization of Dorchester’s Quincy Corridor. The $20.5 million grant is part of HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative

BOSTON - October 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Martha Coakley issued the following statement in response to new regulations filed by the state’s Division of Banks that prevent lenders from foreclosing on a property if an application for a loan modification is in process

BROCKTON - October 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A year after touring an abandoned property that was being renovated through her Abandoned Housing Initiative (AHI), Attorney General Martha Coakley returned to meet the home’s new owner and tour another property that has since been rehabbed. Through the AHI program, almost 50 homes have now been renovated in Brockton, with property values of those homes rising an average 20 percent for a total increase of $1.2 million.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Boston Public Library continues its series of roundtable discussions to update library users and interested residents on the Johnson Building Improvement Project. The first phase of construction, which involves the second floor of the 700 Boylston Street building, will begin in December of this year. Highlights of the second floor work include a new children’s library and teen room.

BOSTON - October 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing is sponsoring a free Homebuyer Fair, this Saturday, October 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Dartmouth Mall.

BOSTON - September 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing is partnering with the Buy Cities program and six MassHousing-approved lenders to promote affordable homeownership opportunities in New Bedford and Fall River.

REVERE - September 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Thursday, September 26, 2013 - Governor Deval Patrick today toured Revere with local officials to discuss the importance of partnering with cities and towns to grow jobs and create economic opportunity. Through strategic investments in housing and economic development projects, Revere has become an attractive, emerging place for residents and families to live, work and play

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The City of Springfield, Massachusetts and Eastman Chemical Company today dedicated the Congressman Richard E. Neal Indian Orchard Community Park. Located at 1708 Page Boulevard, the park has always been an important green space to the citizens of Springfield

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - September 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The City of Springfield, Massachusetts and Eastman Chemical Company today dedicated the Congressman Richard E. Neal Indian Orchard Community Park. Located at 1708 Page Boulevard, the park has always been an important green space to the citizens of Springfield

BOSTON - September 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing announced today that Equitable Cooperative Bank is now an approved lender of MassHousing's family of affordable, fixed-rate, home loan products for low- and moderate-income homebuyers. Based in Lynn, the bank also has a branch in Nahant. Equitable Cooperative Bank also offers lending services in Essex and Middlesex Counties via the Internet and its loan officers will also originate loans at borrowers' homes or at a location of their choice.

Boston, MA - September 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Boston Public Library continues its series of roundtables to update library users and interested residents on the Johnson Building Improvement Project.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Standing with members of his Housing Advisory Panel, Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced a plan to build 30,000 units of housing in the City of Boston by the year 2020.

Boston - September 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Strong consumer demand for a unique home mortgage loan with no mortgage insurance requirement and a solid multi-family financing year propelled MassHousing (The Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency) to a record lending year in fiscal year 2013.