Check out the Housing Navigator Massachusetts and MyMassHome for online access tools to help connect people to available housing.

Contact your state rep today, July 12, 2022. Ask for their support of critical affordable housing amendments to H.5007.

Abbot’s Pond condo is only the 2nd affordable home without an age restriction that has come on the market in Andover in 2022. Consequently 18 applications were received and a housing lottery drawing was held. We need to keep creating affordable housing and welcoming a diversity of incomes to this great community.

ACT was one of 140 Massachusetts non-profits to receive a $100,000 Cummings Foundation grant!

Hear about the officials on hand and see images from our 30th Anniversary Celebration at Stott Circle

Hear from South Church on how they became involved with ACT’s first duplexes, whose owners are now Church neighbors and meet the Holy Rollers.

Chapter 40B is valuable for all Massachusetts residents. Through 40B not only are more affordable homes built, more homes for all of us are made available, so that we can house the folks who want to live and work in Massachusetts. Learn how.

Denise joined other Andover women to share her ACT story at the Oak & Iron on Wednesday night.

The Andover Community Assistance plan has been announced as part of Andover’s overall American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. The plan is designed to provide assistance to Andover residents who find themselves unable to pay rent, mortgage, utility or other housing payments due to unemployment, underemployment or other continuing hardship associated with the Coronavirus pandemic.

ACT celebrates its 30th Anniversary this month. Hear from our founder Susan Stott on those early days and why permanently affordable housing development and advocacy continues to be critical for Andover.

The Winter 2022 issue of The Andovers magazine included an article titled Building Dreams, Andover Community Trust, Habitat for Humanity team up on Stott Circle homes. The article talks about the vision behind Stott Circle, building the homes, welcoming the new owners, and includes lots of photos from last September’s celebration as well as photos throughout the construction process. You can check it out online at The Andovers.

Read how one ACT homeowner relied on a network of contacts to replace her failing oil system with an energy-efficient heat pumps and learn about Andover resources for clean, affordable energy for your home.

Andover is just one of three towns selected by CHAPA for their 2022 Municipal Engagement Initiative. Through this initiative the town will receive support to investigate how to improve our affordable housing strategies.

Help us support a new Massachusetts bill to allow local control on placing a small fee of .5% to 2% on higher-end real estate transactions to fund affordable housing. This legislation is intentionally adaptable so that different municipalities can enact the type of transfer fee that works for their community.

Hear directly from Haydee, a new homeowner, who shares how to get prepared to find and purchase an affordable home in Andover.

Two families have moved into the first two Stott Circle homes to be completed. The permanently affordable homes were built through a partnership between Andover Community Trust (ACT) and Essex County Habitat for Humanity.

Listen to Planet’s Money’s podcast Three Reasons for the Housing Shortage and in just 16 minutes hear the three big reasons for the shortage. Then consider what ACT is doing locally to work towards reducing the housing shortage.

As we hope to complete the east duplex before fall, this June marked the end of Greater Lawrence Technical School students working on the ACT home on Lupine Road. The Andover Townsman published an article, GLTS Students Build Duplex, on the students and the work they have done over the past 3 years on the duplex.

Check out the gallery of builders at the Lupine Road east duplex