Lottery Being Held For Affordable Housing In Sudbury

SUDBURY, MA—It is the last week to apply for an affordable housing opportunity in Sudbury.

The Sudbury Housing Authority is accepting applications for the Sudbury Duplexes family housing program through Saturday, Nov. 17. The applications are being accepted up until 2 p.m. for a lottery that determines a waitlist order. Those completed applications will be included in the lottery that is scheduled for Nov 26.

The program includes 10, two-bedroom duplexes in town. Applicants must meet state income eligibility standards and rents are 27 percent or 30 percent of income.

Sudbury Duplexes debuted with a grand opening in November of 2012 with a new duplex at 19 Greenwood Road, reports the Massachusetts Housing Partnership. Lifelong Sudbury resident Jo-Ann Howe of the Sudbury Housing Authority is credited with originally getting 12 affordable housing units built in town in the 1980s, and continued to seek out land in Sudbury to develop more, including for the Duplexes program.

The town supported the Duplexes program with a comprehensive zoning permit, and also $600,000 from Community Preservation Act funds and $150,000 from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

The Sudbury Housing Authority now owns and runs 28 scattered-site, single-family and duplex rental houses for low income families, and 64 apartments at Musketahquid Village for people older than 60 and disabled people.

Applications can be found here.

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