Somerville's '100 Homes' Program Accepting Applications

SOMERVILLE, MA – The Somerville Community Corporation and Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development are accepting applications for the 100 Homes Program. Applications are due by 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 5 and are available at the SCC (337 Somerville Ave.), Somerville City Hall (93 Highland Ave.), and the City Hall Annex (50 Evergreen Ave.), and online at somervillecdc.org/100-Homes-Application.

The 100 Homes Program is designed to establish rental housing that is permanently affordable by acquiring multi-family properties across the city. The goal is to provide households with a range of low and moderate incomes access to quality safe and affordable housing by removing the properties from the speculative market and providing permanent affordability through deed restrictions.

he goal of the 100 Homes Program, in partnership between the City and Somerville Community Corp., and utilizing Community Preservation Funding, among other City funding, is for SCC to acquire scattered site multi-family properties in neighborhoods across the City to establish rental housing that is permanently affordable. By removing these properties from the speculative market and providing permanent affordability through deed restrictions, households with a range of low and moderate incomes, including units affordable to households earning at or below 50% of AMI and up to 100% of AMI, will be able to access quality safe and affordable housing. This also is an important tool in addressing displacement.

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Priority status will be given for individuals and/or families who:

· have been issued a notice to quit, or a notice of nonrenewal of lease, or who are otherwise in the process of a no-fault eviction,

· must utilize a mobile housing voucher in Somerville or risk losing it, or

· are homeless and on the Somerville Continuum of Care Coordinated Entry List where a provider with HUD funding through the Somerville Continuum of Care has unused permanent supportive housing leasing dollars and needs to find a unit to lease.

Tenants will be selected for initial occupancy and waiting list placement through a lottery process. Placement will be determined by lottery number and not the time and date of application. Apartments will become available on a rolling basis. The lottery will be held at Somerville City Hall shortly after the application deadline, at a date to be determined. Applicants do not need to be present during the lottery as all applicants will be notified by mail.

All applications must arrive at Somerville Community Corporation by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 5, 2018.

Applications may be emailed to David Tisel atdtisel@somervillecdc.org, or mailed to SCC, 337 Somerville Avenue, 2nd fl. Somerville MA 02143. Mailed applications received after the 4:00 p.m. deadline will not be accepted. For more information about the application process, or reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, please call Somerville Community Corporation at 617- 410-9910.

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