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Affordable apartment buildings in Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 2,015 affordable apartment buildings in 267 cities and towns on Fair Shot Housing: 1,062 tax-credit buildings, 597 Section 8 buildings and 518 senior buildings. A building can be in more than one group.
These buildings do not post openings. Pick a city, then call or visit a building’s office and ask to join its own waitlist.
Cities with the most buildings
All 267 cities and towns in Massachusetts
- Abington3
- Acton1
- Adams4
- Agawam2
- Allston10
- Amesbury5
- Amherst10
- Andover6
- Arlington3
- Ashburnham1
- Ashland2
- Athol7
- Attleboro6
- Auburn2
- Auburndale3
- Ayer3
- Baldwinville2
- Barnstable1
- Barre1
- Bedford2
- Belchertown1
- Belmont1
- Berlin2
- Beverly16
- Billerica3
- Blackstone1
- Bolton1
- Boston228
- Bourne6
- Braintree3
- Brewster5
- Bridgewater1
- Brighton15
- Brockton21
- Brookline15
- Buckland1
- Burlington1
- Cambridge45
- Canton2
- Carlisle2
- Charlestown11
- Charlton1
- Chatham1
- Chelmsford3
- Chelsea27
- Chester1
- Chicopee21
- Clarksburg1
- Clinton4
- Concord1
- Dalton1
- Danvers10
- Dartmouth6
- Dedham1
- Dennis1
- Dennis Port1
- Dorchester131
- Dorchester Center6
- Douglas2
- Dracut2
- Duxbury3
- East Boston23
- East Cambridge2
- East Falmouth1
- East Longmeadow3
- East Sandwich2
- East Taunton1
- East Wareham6
- Eastham1
- Easthampton7
- Edgartown1
- Everett3
- Fairhaven1
- Fall River36
- Falmouth5
- Feeding Hills2
- Fiskdale2
- Fitchburg13
- Florence1
- Foxborough1
- Framingham15
- Franklin2
- Gardner7
- Gloucester7
- Grafton1
- Great Barrington2
- Greenfield10
- Groton2
- Groveland2
- Hadley2
- Hampden1
- Hanover4
- Hanson2
- Harvard2
- Harwich2
- Haverhill24
- Hingham1
- Holbrook1
- Holden1
- Holliston2
- Holyoke36
- Hubbardston1
- Hudson2
- Hyannis7
- Hyde Park11
- Ipswich3
- Jamaica Plain24
- Kingston2
- Lakeville4
- Lanesborough1
- Lanesbourgh1
- Lawrence43
- Lee3
- Lenox1
- Leominster6
- Lexington3
- Littleton3
- Longmeadow7
- Lowell55
- Ludlow2
- Lunenburg3
- Lynn26
- Malden16
- Manchester1
- Mansfield2
- Marblehead1
- Marion4
- Marlboro2
- Marlborough7
- Marshfield5
- Mashpee2
- Mattapan13
- Maynard6
- Medfield3
- Medford6
- Medway2
- Melrose4
- Merrimac2
- Methuen9
- Middleboro1
- Middleborough3
- Middleton1
- Milford1
- Milton2
- Monson1
- Montague1
- Nantucket1
- Natick2
- Needham10
- New Bedford44
- Newburyport2
- Newton22
- Newton Centre1
- North Adams10
- North Andover3
- North Attleboro1
- North Brookfield1
- North Chelmsford2
- North Easton2
- North Reading1
- North Weymouth1
- Northampton11
- Northborough2
- Northbridge2
- Norton2
- Norwood4
- Oak Bluffs3
- Orange2
- Orleans1
- Oxford2
- Palmer2
- Paxton2
- Peabody7
- Pembroke1
- Pittsfield17
- Plainville1
- Plymouth3
- Plympton1
- Pocasset2
- Provincetown3
- Quincy15
- Randolph4
- Raynham3
- Reading7
- Revere13
- Rockland5
- Rockport1
- Roslindale16
- Roxbury82
- Roxbury Crossing10
- Rutland1
- Salem16
- Salisbury3
- Sandwich2
- Saugus3
- Scituate3
- Sharon2
- Shrewsbury2
- Somerset1
- Somerville31
- South Boston10
- South Dennis1
- South Hadley1
- South Yarmouth4
- Southampton1
- Southbridge3
- Southwick1
- Spencer2
- Springfield118
- Stockbridge1
- Stoneham1
- Stoughton5
- Stow4
- Sturbridge1
- Sudbury4
- Swansea2
- Taunton17
- Teaticket2
- Tewksbury2
- Topsfield1
- Townsend2
- Turners Falls3
- Tyngsboro2
- Tyngsborough1
- Upton1
- Uxbridge2
- Vineyard Haven9
- Wakefield5
- Wales1
- Walpole1
- Waltham5
- Ware3
- Wareham5
- Watertown6
- Wayland1
- Webster9
- Wellesley4
- West Barnstable1
- West Boylston1
- West Bridgewater1
- West Newton1
- West Roxbury6
- West Springfield3
- West Wareham1
- West Warren1
- West Yarmouth1
- Westborough1
- Westfield12
- Westford3
- Weston1
- Westport4
- Westwood3
- Weymouth8
- Whitinsville3
- Whitman1
- Wilbraham3
- Williamsburg1
- Williamstown3
- Wilmington1
- Winchendon3
- Winchester1
- Winthrop2
- Woburn5
- Worcester89
- Worthington1
- Wrentham1
- Yarmouth Port2
Looking for an opening right now?
The lists we use do not say whether a building’s waitlist is open. For homes taking applications now, see the open listings in Massachusetts or the area-wide waitlists in Massachusetts.