Executive Director: Stephen J. Dubuque

Overview
A volunteer community housing committee established South Shore Housing in 1970. In 1974, South Shore Housing contracted with the State Department of Community Affairs (Department of Housing & Community Development) to implement and administer the State Rental Assistance program in towns that lacked these services. In 1975, the contract was expanded to include the federal Section 8 Programs.

Responding to the demand for increased housing services for low to moderate-income families, South Shore Housing expanded its services to include the development of affordable housing. In 1982, construction was completed on the Corporation??s first "from the ground up" development, a 30 unit elderly/handicapped complex located in Marshfield.

South Shore Housing embarked on new services with the creation of the Housing Services Department designed to provide tenants and landlords with advice and assistance. Today the Housing Services Department, along with its landlord/tenant services, provides a number of programs directed at helping low and moderate-income individuals and families to purchase homes.

South Shore Housing manages over 321 rental units in thirteen communities. We serve homeless families and citizens who have a disability. We help over 2,000 families pay their rent every month. Our pledge is to continue to find innovative ways of serving people in Southeastern Massachusetts.

Development Department
As a regional non-profit housing development corporation, South Shore Housing has expertise in both public and private financing resources. Our wide range of experience in the new construction of rental housing and the rehabilitation of existing substandard housing is put to work every day in the cities and towns of Plymouth and Bristol counties.

Our Development Department has constructed and/or rehabilitated a variety of properties, which are currently owned and managed by South Shore Housing. These projects range in design and purpose from elderly complexes to family complexes to group homes for the mentally ill. In addition to developing our own properties, we also act as consultants to other non-profit agencies and public housing authorities seeking to develop affordable housing. We offer comprehensive assistance, which can take the project from concept through construction.

South Shore Housing offers an array of consumer oriented assistance including foreclosure prevention, homebuyer education and assistance and home improvement loan programs. South Shore Housing is an agent for a variety of purchase and rehab loan products. Housing Services administers several home improvement loan programs including special subsidized loan programs for deleading and septic upgrade.

Director of Development: Gerri Bain

Property Management
South Shore Housing manages over 321 units designed for the elderly, for the handicapped, for families and for the mentally ill; always paying attention to the needs of the individual. We offer management services under contract to private owners. These services include physical and grounds maintenance, financial management, tenant selection and eviction.

Property Manager: Gaile Fowler

Leased Housing
South Shore Housing assists over 2,000 low-income families and elderly in Plymouth and Bristol counties to live in safe, affordable housing through the administration of the Housing Choice Voucher and Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program Existing and Moderate Rehabilitation programs. The administration of rental subsidies in viewed as one step in a continuum. South Shore Housing seeks to help clients move forward to independence and make the transition from subsidy holder to homeowner.

Director of Rental Management: Roger Goguen

Housing Services
South Shore Housing provides a variety of education, counseling and technical services as part of its housing services Program. They include housing search for families that are homeless; a scattered site program for families fleeing domestic violence, training seminars, part of the statewide Landlord Training Institute as well as tenant and landlord counseling.

Two companion publications are available for sale entitled, "A Landlord??s Guide to Renting" and "A Guide to Property Management". These comprehensive guides provide information regarding such concerns as how to handle a security deposit, tenant selection, eviction and property maintenance, with sample forms.

Counselors are available to assist renters by providing information regarding rights and responsibilities as a tenant as well as assistance in searching for appropriate housing.

Housing Consumer Education Specialist: Beth Thompson