Coffee and dessert will be provided. Coffee and dessert will be served. These units, which are sold at reduced prices to qualified buyers, are well integrated within the development, and their facades typically are indistinguishable from similar, full-price units. Even though the exteriors of affordable units should be indistinguishable from market-rate units, the interior amenities may differ. Affordable units, or LIP units, also are available to qualified buyers when the owners of existing units sell their homes.
Subsequent buyers are subject to the same resale restrictions as initial buyers.
According to the most recent figures available from the Massachusetts Depart ment of Housing and Community Development and the Citizens Housing and Planning Association, a nonprofit umbrella group for affordable housing and community issues, only 23 of the state's 351 cities and towns meet the 10 percent affordable housing goal. And almost none of the 23 are wealthier suburban areas that were the target of anti-snob zoning in the first place. The statewide average for subsidized housing is 8.53 percent, with 203,098 subsidized units out of 2.4 million total year-round units. While 8.53 appears close to the 10 percent goal, when the top 46 primarily urban areas are taken out of the equation the remaining 305 communities have an average of just 4.58 percent of their housing stock defined as subsidized. Paula Pennell and Judy Green gave a stack of turquoise bibles to the Wakefield Conservation Commission Wednesday, March 3.