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.
Representatives from the town of Edgartown and the Dukes County Commission made pitches to take over ownership of the former Land Bank headquarters in Edgartown.
Island housing advocates will return to Boston Tuesday to lobby their support for the local option transfer fee and housing bank bills being reviewed at the State House.
Oak Bluffs businessman Mark Wallace recently purchased a nine-bedroom home in Woods Hole in hopes of building a commuter workforce.
The planned Edgartown affordable housing complex was one of 27 projects statewide that won a combined $246 million from the state.
The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society will be able to offer affordable housing for three farmers this summer, after the late Island homesteader Paul Jackson bequeathed his Edgartown home and garden to the organization.
The Oak Bluffs zoning board of appeals unanimously voted Wednesday to approve the comprehensive permit for Southern Tier, a planned new neighborhood of affordable housing next to the Martha’s Vineyard Ice Arena in the town-owned woodlands.
