Three Island residents walked away from the Tisbury selectmen’s meeting this past week with the opportunity to buy a home close to downtown Vineyard Haven for a dramatically reduced price.
The Island Housing Trust’s seventh annual benefit brunch and screening of a documentary short, produced by IHT in collaboration with the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, was held at Farm Neck.
Taylor and Sarah Ives, and James and Nancy Benoit won the right to buy affordable homes in a lottery held by the Aquinnah selectmen Tuesday.
The Island Housing Trust will receive $150,000 in tax credits from the from the state community investment tax credit program.
Aquinnah town officials and Island affordable housing leaders gathered Friday on a cold hilltop to break ground on a new affordable housing project.
Daniel Consoni, a 29-year-old Edgartown resident, won the right to buy a one-bedroom loft in downtown Edgartown in a lottery drawing Monday afternoon.
State and Island officials broke ground Friday at Scott’s Grove, a project to build nine affordable rental apartments.
