Press Releases
10.25.2024
United in Purpose: Catalyst Housing by The Haven Project and Harborlight Homes – Blog
United Way of Massachusetts Bay Blog Two United Way partners collaborate for transformative impact. In an inspiring collaboration, The Haven […]
10.01.2024
Harborlight Homes receives $2M gift for Lighthouse Center
By Paul Leighton at The Salem News BEVERLY — Harborlight Homes has received a $2 million donation to help build a […]
09.30.2024
Tower Family Fund makes Transformative $2 Million Gift to Harborlight Homes’ Capital Campaign to build The Lighthouse Center, Beverly, MA
BEVERLY — Harborlight Homes is honored to announce a significant milestone in its mission to support the community’s most vulnerable […]
09.30.2024
Harborlight Homes Receives a $2 Million Equity Equivalent Investment (EQ2) from First Citizens Bank to Advance Mission of Affordable Housing
Beverly, MA - Harborlight Community Partners (DBA Harborlight Homes), a Beverly-based nonprofit, today announced that it has received a $2 […]
08.22.2024
Lifebridge expansion plan reworked again to utilize proposed zoning overlay
By Michael McHugh at The Salem News SALEM — Lifebridge North Shore and Harborlight Homes have once again revised their plan […]
08.21.2024
As housing costs continue to climb, Harborlight presses on with Ipswich apartments
By Trevor Meek at The Local News IPSWICH — Andrew DeFranza, executive director of Harborlight Homes, remembers a time when he […]
03.11.2024
In deeds, people of color were barred from buying homes. Now, they could validate reparations programs.
By Milton J. Valencia Globe Staff, The Boston Globe The modest Cape-style homes on a side street in Beverly are […]
01.22.2024
Developers of affordable housing in Gloucester have shot at $1.5M in ARPA money
By Ethan Forman at The Gloucester Times For developers or nonprofits looking to build or preserve scarce affordable housing in America’s […]
01.16.2024
Unearthing racial covenants on the North Shore
By Jennifer Smith at The Commonwealth Beacon Housing and racial justice partnership explores racial discrimination in property deeds Not many […]
01.16.2024
Pulling the thread on North Shore racial covenants – Podcast
The CommonWealth Beacon Codcast Last year, the “Dirty Deeds Project” brought to light hundreds of racially restrictive covenants in home […]
01.04.2024
Registry of Deeds officially acknowledges over 500 racial covenants
By Paul Leighton at The Salem News SALEM — The Southern Essex Registry of Deeds has officially acknowledged more than 500 […]
12.15.2023
Briscoe School in Beverly, MA – Former Students May Soon Live in Massachusetts Housing
By Mark Fogarty PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NATIONAL HOUSING & REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION The Hall Company of Lynn and Harborlight […]
12.13.2023
Hall Company seeks long-term affordability of Lynn apartments, collaborates with Harborlight Homes
Submitted to The Item The Hall Company of Lynn and Harborlight Homes of Beverly have reached an agreement on the […]
11.20.2023
Affordable Housing on Route 1 in Rowley will have to pay $400,000 for road changes
By John P. Muldoon at The Local News ROWLEY — Is it any wonder that building affordable housing is so difficult […]
11.03.2023
Project of the Month: Groom Construction, Harborlight Homes, and SV Design complete 23-unit affordable housing community
By NEREJ Rockport, MA Groom Construction, Co., Inc., a premiere general contracting firm, Harborlight Homes, an innovative and award-winning nonprofit affordable housing […]
10.25.2023
Our View: Cleansing racist deeds is progress, but not enough
By The Eagle Tribune The exclusionary roots of our current housing crisis, and its separation into the haves and have-nots, can […]
10.23.2023
Legacy of racist housing restrictions uncovered in North Shore communities
By Chris Burrell at GBH Hundreds of deeds for homes on the North Shore contain racist language or covenants, prohibiting the […]
10.17.2023
Project identifies racial covenants in North Shore deeds
By Paul Leighton at The Salem News BEVERLY — The deeds of several hundred properties in southern Essex County contain language […]
02.21.2023
Old school: Beverly High seniors making documentary about former Briscoe school
By The Salem Evening News BEVERLY — A century after it was built as the city’s high school, the Briscoe building […]
08.04.2022
New Affordable Housing Community Opens in Beverly
by Liz Hughes at Boston Agent Magazine The first phase of Anchor Point, a new affordable housing community, has opened […]
08.04.2022
A Place to Anchor: Ceremony Marks Opening of 38 Affordable Units
By The Salem News BEVERLY — Some of the most hard-to-get living spaces in Beverly are about to open. Officials […]
05.10.2022
Zoning has Played a Major Role in Racial Segregation
New state law aimed at spurring housing construction can be vehicle for racial justice IN RESPONSE TO decades of rising housing […]
02.17.2022
Do You Qualify for This Affordable Housing? Maybe
By The Salem News BEVERLY — If you think you make too much money to qualify for the new affordable […]
05.20.2020
Drawings, photos offer hope to residents at Harborlight Community Partners
By The Salem News The residents at Harborlight Community Partners in Beverly thrive on interaction, with each other as well […]