Permanent Housing

Turner House

American Legion Post 152
825 Simonds Road, Williamstown, MA
(413) 458-4201
8 single bedrooms and one double bedroom. Veterans share a living room, kitchen and dining room.

Devens Housing

MA Veterans Inc.
69 Grove Street
Worcester, MA
(508) 791-1213 
36 units for disabled and homeless veterans. Services are funded from a Continuum of Care grant from HUD and reconstruction funded by the state-funded Stabilization Fund.

Nichols Street Veterans Apartments, Gardner

Montachusetts Veterans Outreach Center (MVOC)
268 Central Street
Gardner, MA
(978) 632-9601
Two buildings provide efficiency apartments for 12 veterans. The project involved extensive renovation of two two-decker buildings in downtown Gardner.

Central Street, Gardner

Montachusetts Veterans Outreach Center (MVOC)
268 Central Street
Gardner, MA
(978) 632-9601
7 units. Most residents, ready for independent living, have moved from MVOC’s Unity House, a 15-room SRO that MVOC developed and has managed since 1996 in Gardner.

Graduate House I, II and III

Southeastern Mass Veterans Housing Program Inc.,
New Bedford, MA
(508) 990-3458 
17 efficiency apartments. For veterans who are ready for independent living.

Highland House

Veterans' Benefits Clearinghouse (VBC)
Roxbury, MA
(617) 541-8846 
14-room SRO in Boston for veterans with mental illness.

VBC Apartments

Veterans' Benefits Clearinghouse (VBC)
Roxbury, MA
(617) 541-8846 
30-unit apartment in Boston. Residents pay 30% of income in rent. The units are always full indicating how great the need is for permanent housing for veterans.

Bedford Veterans' Quarters

Bedford Veterans' Quarters
Building # 5
200 Springs Road
Bedford, MA
(781) 843-1242, Ext. 25
www.caritascommunities.org

60 private, furnished rooms including a group of seven contiguous rooms for female veterans that share one common bathroom. The Bedford Veterans Quarters is housed in Building 5 on the Bedford VA Campus in Massachusetts. 56 of the 60 units receive Section 8 benefits. Applications will be reviewed by the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership, including a CORI review. Veterans must have completed their military service with either an honorable or general discharge as shown on their DD 214 and must be clean and sober for at least 120 days. For more information and to apply, please contact Anne Dooley at (781) 843-1242, Ext. 25.

Local Housing Authorities: Chapter 200 State-Funded Public Housing

Though not supported by DVS, Chapter 200 state-funded public housing provides permanent housing to veterans.

A major source of permanent housing is the more than 13,000 units of state-funded Chapter 200 Veterans’ Housing managed by local housing authorities located statewide. Very few veterans currently live in Chapter 200 Veterans’ Housing. State tenant selection regulations have limited absolute veterans’ preference to Chapter 200 housing at this time.