After a successful pilot program last year, Lease to Locals is returning this fall as a public-private partnership with Housing Nantucket at the helm.

As we celebrate the remarkable milestone of 30 years since our nonprofit's incorporation, we captured a bit of our history with an interview with Norman Chaleki, co-founder of Housing Nantucket.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) updated Nantucket County's median family income to $153,100, an increase of 12.3% over last year.

In a bid to revolutionize the island's approach towards construction and demolition waste, a cohort from Nantucket attended the Deconstruction + Reuse Conference in Savannah, GA.

Progress continues at Wiggles Way, the 22 unit development of mixed-income affordable housing on Fairgrounds Road. If you've been keeping up with our journey, you know this project is an example of what can be achieved through community collaboration and support.

On September 7th 2023, Nashville singer and songwriter Maggie Rose captivated a sold-out crowd at Housing Nantucket’s second annual benefit concert.

Progress ran the gamut at our jobsite on Honeysuckle Drive this month. Through a design-build partnership with the Richmond Company, construction crews went gangbusteres framing three dwellings targeted for middle-income Nantucket households.

CPS students, Select Board members, Land Bank commissioners, realtors, and members of the Chamber of Commerce joined forces with their Vineyard counterparts for an inspiring day of advocacy.

Nantucket has made great strides to increase the number of affordable housing units across the island recently, earning the town another two years of “safe harbor”. This major accomplishment provides some breathing room, but there is still work to be done.

“Very few opportunities exist for middle-income islanders, leaving integral members of our workforce in a very vulnerable position," said Anne Kuszpa.

Renee Ceely, longtime Nantucket affordable housing advocate and one of our nonprofit's founders, has retired after almost 30 years as Executive Director of Nantucket Housing Authority (NHA).

We poured foundations for two of the eight buildings at 31 Fairgrounds Road this month. This post explores how one can apply for these rental apartments, as well as the eligibility requirements and the methodology of how we will select tenants.

With support from the ReMain Nantucket Fund and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), we have teamed up with local solar company ACK Smart to install rooftop panels on some of our affordable rental properties.

House-recycling saves structures from the landfill and generates funding for affordable housing efforts. Today, we made someone's dreams happen.

At the Wiggles Way groundbreaking celebration, housing advocates' faces were all smiles, despite the frigid temps and snowfall.

Through their company Dreamline Modular Homes, business partners Doug and Kris had built hundreds of homes for others, but neither one of them had owned a home of their own. Could the Covenant Program help them obtain their dream of moving to Nantucket, as well as create two new homeownership opportunities for year-round families?

The 100th Covenant property has closed, almost 18 years after the first Covenant home was created in 2003. We are tickled pink by the success of this scattered-site homeownership program, which currently houses 267 year-round Nantucket residents including 87 island children.

Every corner of the 31 Fairgrounds Road property, owned by the Coffin family since 1963, has memories and stories. This month, as we watched the existing structures move over-the-road, we acknowledged and appreciated the Coffin family’s value on community, as we strive to maintain this tradition throughout this project.

Thank you to everyone who came to our Renovator's Dream Yard Sale! We raised a pretty penny on this rainy Saturday, and made room for more great stuff as we hope to make this a recurring seasonal event.