Projects In Process
“No matter what project we are talking about, we need affordable housing more now than ever.”
- Elaine McIlroy, chair WHA
95 Lawrence Road
Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) and the Community Development Partnership (CDP) have been chosen to build and manage 46 units of affordable rental housing. learn more
Buy Down Program
We are currently not offering funding for the Buy Down Program.
Paine Hollow
Eight affordable rental units on 120 Paine Hollow Road are planned to be built.
Old Kings Highway
Habitat for Humanity Community Housing at 2254 Old Kings Highway, Wellfleet. Infrastructure is nearly complete, and this fall we will be raising the walls on four homes (two, 2-bedroom and two, 3-bedroom ranches) in this newly created rural outer-Cape neighborhood. At completion, the homes will be sold at affordable prices to those at 60-80% of AMI (area median income). Eligible purchasers have been identified through an application and lottery selection process. The neighborhood abuts the National Seashore with easy access to all it offers. Both fresh and saltwater beaches are within biking distance. The site is just a short drive to downtown Wellfleet. The homes will be energy-efficient and solar-equipped. Special care was taken to conserve natural forest duff which was spread and replanted at the subdivision entry. In keeping with surrounding homes, and the pine land eco-system, there will be natural Cape Cod lawns and native plant landscapes.
Freeman Ave.
Plans for one affordable single-family house.
Wellfleet’s 2023 Housing Production Plan
A Housing Production Plan is a community's proactive strategy for planning and developing affordable housing by creating a strategy to meet its affordable housing needs. The Town of Wellfleet's Affordable Housing group including the Affordable Housing Trust, the Local Housing Partnership and the Housing Authority, has worked collaboratively with JM Goldson to collect data, understand local housing conditions and needs, and develop strategies that will meet the needs of our year-round community today and in the future.
The 2023 Housing Production Plan highlight Wellfleet's demographics, median income, home prices both for sale and rent, and identifies both short and long-term housing needs. The strategic five-year plan for the production of affordable and mixed-income housing was a culmination of interviews and focus groups that also includes the Town Assistant Administrator, the Director of Community Services and key stakeholders involved in the production, preservation, planning, and zoning aspects of housing development in the Town of Wellfleet.
Wellfleet's 2023 Housing Production Plan was presented and approved by the Select Board and the Planning Board on March 21, 2023.
Read the Executive Summary here.
Read the complete Housing Production Plan here.
Completed Projects
RENTAL ASSISTANCE
Since 2006, we have have helped over 70 households in difficult situations to stay in their homes.
GULL POND
Six new, affordable, one- and two-bedroom apartments opened in December 2019.
FRED BELL WAY
12 units of affordable rentals
HABITAT
Affordable home ownership for 7 families including the recently completed 2082 Durkee Way.
DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE
Providing help to 4 Wellfleetians to buy their first home.
OLD WHARF ROAD
Four affordable homes
OYSTER LANE
Six affordable homes
