Village Hill Affordable Housing PDF
Affordable Housing Counts at Former Northampton State Hospital
Project Affordable units in
MassDevelopment site
Affordable Units credited to city using
MGL §40B/DHCD subsidized housing
inventory for entire former State
Hospital (counts market rate units in
affordable housing rentals but not in
homeownership projects)
Village Hill I (TCB’s
brick apartments)
26 33
Village Hill II (TCB’s
newer apartments)
32 40
Ice Pond Drive (8 out
of 28 units)
88
Housing Authority
(Grove Avenue)
06
Total Current 66 87
Christopher Heights
(pending tax credits)
43 83
Total w/Planned 109 171
Summary: The aspirational affordable housing goal (109 units) will be met once Christopher
Heights is developed, but it is not currently met. The formula of how to calculate which units
count, however, is not clear, although my own interpretation is that we should use the count in
the left column. If Christopher Heights is developed that issue is moot since the affordable
housing goal will be met. There was a separate goal of units being available to people who are
eligible to be clients of DMH. My office doesn’t track that so I don’t know its status.