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BOSTON, MA - January 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Representative Edward J. Markey (d-Malden), along with Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown, and Representatives John Olver, Jim McGovern, Niki Tsongas, and Richard Neal, today announced that Massachusetts will receive $56,550,634 to provide housing and services to the homeless throughout the state.

BOSTON, MA - January 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A Boston real estate management company, its agent and property owner have been sued for violating state anti-discrimination law, Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office announced. The Attorney General’s Office filed a housing discrimination complaint on January 3, 2011, against Mediate Management Company (“Mediate”), its agent Deborah Kooring, and Fenway Buttrick, LLC, in Suffolk Superior Court alleging that the defendants refused to renew the lease of a family because they reside with a young child whose presence required the defendants to comply with state lead paint laws.

BOSTON, MA - December 24, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston announced that three Massachusetts initiatives will receive more than $6.2 million in grants, loans, and interest-rate subsidies through its Affordable Housing Program. These funds will be used to finance 139 units of affordable rental housing for households earning at or below 80 percent of area median income.

BOSTON, MA - December 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- A Melrose-based realty trust and its manager violated Massachusetts law by allegedly posting a discriminatory rental advertisement on the popular classified advertising website Craigslist.org (“Craigslist”), according to a lawsuit filed by AG Coakley’s Office. The complaint, filed in Suffolk Superior Court against Mt. V.M. Realty Trust (“Mt. V.M.”) and Nicholas Keramaris, alleges that they violated state anti-discrimination, lead paint, and consumer protection laws by placing an advertisement on Craigslist which referred to the lead status of an apartment and refused to rent it to families with young children

BOSTON, MA - December 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing announced a $2.2 million loan closing today for the acquisition and preservation of affordability of the 125-unit Lincoln Woods in Lincoln.

December 16, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today the Boston City Council approved a proposal by Mayor Thomas M. Menino to encourage the use of solar technologies by reducing building permit fees for building owners implementing solar photovoltaic rooftop technologies. The new solar permitting fees are the latest initiative in the mayor’s plan to make Boston one of the greenest cities in America. The City has also developed an online Solar Map and released a comprehensive Solar Permitting Guide that aim to streamline the design and permitting process and motivate property owners to install solar systems.

BOSTON, MA - December 7, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing announced $7.7 million in loan closings today for the acquisition, rehabilitation and preservation of affordability of the 144-unit Harborview Towers in New Bedford.

BOSTON, MA - December 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing was honored with an All Inclusive Award in the category of Supplier Diversity by Color Magazine for the Agency’s dedication and success in promoting the use of Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs).

December 1, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- City officials, Governor Deval Patrick, and Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation today celebrated the continued revitalization of the Blue Hill Avenue corridor at a ribbon cutting ceremony for Nuestra’s $22 million mixed-use development at the former Kasanof Bakery site in Roxbury, dedicated today as the Thomas I. Atkins Apartments.

BOSTON, MA - November 16, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing has awarded $453,037 in financing to help create or preserve more than 100 units of affordable sober housing in eight communities across Massachusetts.

November 8, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Menino today welcomed new homeowners to Twenty at Luma, the final phase of the Boston Housing Authority’s Orchard HOPE VI Redevelopment effort. Currently, seven families have moved in and others are due to be moving in during the next few weeks.

November 1, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Thomas M. Menino has announced the newest initiative in moving forward his plan to make Boston one of the greenest cities in America. The City has released a comprehensive Solar Permitting Guide and Mayor Menino has filed a new ordinance that will reduce building permit fees for building owners implementing solar rooftop technologies. The announcement was made at A View from the Top: Sustainable Roofs in Boston, an event hosted by the Mayor’s Office of Environmental and Energy Services and the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

November 1, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Thomas M. Menino today joined the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC), New Atlantic Development Corporation (NADC), Harvard University officials, and community members in celebrating the new Doña Betsaida Gutiérrez Housing Cooperative, located at the corner of Centre and Creighton Streets. The mixed-use building, named for a long time Jamaica Plain activist, is the latest completed phase of affordable housing development at the $50 million Blessed Sacrament parish site

BOSTON , MA - October 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Michael J. Dirrane has been reappointed by Governor Deval Patrick to a new 7-year term on the MassHousing Board of Directors. Mr. Dirrane, a South Boston native, is the longest-serving Board Member in MassHousing's 44-year history. He was first named to the Board in 1993 and currently serves as Vice Chairman. From 1995 to 2009 he served as Chairman of the Agency.

BOSTON, MA - October 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Deval Patrick today announced that the state will target $2,513,973 in federal weatherization recovery funds to replace old, inefficient heating systems with new state-of-the-art units for public housing authorities in Chicopee, Hopkinton, Leominster, Lunenburg, Mansfield, Middleboro, Provincetown, Randolph, Reading, Spencer, Wakefield, Whitman, Winchendon, Winchester and Woburn