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The Forge, a new housing project in Lenox, a town in Berkshire County, Mass., where high housing costs and a tight market have made it challenging for workers to find a place to live.
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Simplified: The Forge is a new housing project in Lenox, Berkshire County, Mass., addressing high housing costs and a tight market for workers.
The Affordable Housing Act designated Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, the Berkshires and other resort towns as “seasonal communities,” making it easier to build homes there for workers.
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Simplified: The Affordable Housing Act designated resort towns as seasonal communities, facilitating worker housing construction.
Rent for a room, which comes with a private bathroom but tenants have to share the kitchen, starts at $900 a month, in a town where the average rent is $2,500, according to Zillow.
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Simplified: Room rent at Thornewood starts at $900, while average rent in the town is $2,500 (Zillow).
Nearby, the Windflower, another inn once popular with tourists, was also repurposed as housing for workers and opened in 2023.
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Simplified: The Windflower inn was repurposed as worker housing and opened in 2023.
The apartment vacancy rate in the county is 3.7 percent, down from 6.2 in 2018, and evictions have nearly doubled, according to the UMass Donahue Institute, which studies housing.
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Simplified: Apartment vacancy rate in Berkshire County is 3.7%, down from 6.2% in 2018, and evictions have nearly doubled (UMass Donahue Institute).
The number of new building permits issued in Massachusetts has “increasingly lagged the national average” since the Great Recession that started in 2007, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Bosto...
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Simplified: New building permits in Massachusetts have lagged the national average since the 2007 recession (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston).
The UMass Donahue Institute estimates that the state will face a shortfall of 222,000 homes by 2036.
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Simplified: Massachusetts will face a housing shortfall of 222,000 homes by 2036 (UMass Donahue Institute).
Last year, Gov. Maura Healey signed the Affordable Housing Act, aimed at encouraging more construction.
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Simplified: Gov. Maura Healey signed the Affordable Housing Act last year to encourage more construction.
State officials say more than 90,000 new housing units have been built or are under development since the law passed.
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Simplified: Over 90,000 new housing units have been built or are under development since the Affordable Housing Act passed.
Eight towns in the Berkshires where more than 40 percent of homes are occupied by part-time residents also received the seasonal-housing designation.
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Simplified: Eight Berkshire towns with over 40% part-time resident homes received the seasonal-housing designation.
The Berkshire Eagle reported last month that only six people in the county had applied to build accessory housing units.
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Simplified: Only six people in Berkshire County applied to build accessory housing units, according to the Berkshire Eagle.
Forty-four percent of homes in Stockbridge are owned as second homes and by outside investors, according to state data.
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Simplified: 44% of homes in Stockbridge are second homes or owned by outside investors (state data).