Worcester Common Ground strives to provide People with affordable housing options.
Worcester Common Ground works to rebuild  Neighborhoods and improve the places we live.
Worcester Common Ground works to involve the Community in the planning of projects and programs.
Worcester Common Ground provides Affordable Housing and First Time Buyer Home Programs.
Worcester Common Ground projects are friendly to the Environment and incorporate Green Technologies when possible.

wcg logoWorcester Common Ground, Inc. (WCG), a Community Development Corporation (CDC) was founded in 1988 in response to concern about absentee ownership of land and property, the high cost of housing, the displacement of families from their homes into shelters, and the fading dream of home ownership and economic opportunity for those living in the most underserved neighborhood of Central Worcester, Massachusetts.

Our member-based organization is composed of land trust residents, concerned citizens, housing advocates, and community leaders. We are an open membership, not-for-profit organization run by an elected board of land trust members.

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WCG preserves neighborhoods

WCG preserves neighborhoods

while providing access to affordable housing.

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Worcester Common Ground helps to preserve and rebuild neighborhoods while providing access to affordable housing and rental units..

WCG can help first time home buyers!

WCG can help first time home buyers!

...with affordable housing!

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Worcester Common Ground projects and programs help families become first time home buyers.

WCG helps families find affordable housing.

WCG helps families find affordable housing.

Bringing new life to our neighborhoods.

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Worcester Common Ground helps families achieve first time home ownership with affordable housing. 

 Neighborhood Playgrounds

Neighborhood Playgrounds

WCG has developed neighborhood playgrounds and gardens.

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Worcester Common Ground has acquired land trusts and developed neighborhood playgrounds and gardens.

Rehabilitate and Preserve

Rehabilitate and Preserve

Historic properties are restored and converted to affordable housing unts.

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Historic properties are restored and converted to affordable housing unts.

Neighborhood Gardens

Neighborhood Gardens

Bringing new life to old neighborhoods.

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This garden, a city-owned lot at Valley and Castle Streets in the midst of the Castle Street…

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The Austin Corridor ll Project is comprised of 6 buildings providing 20 units of affordable rental housing. These homes are located among the target area (Piedmont Neighborhood) that WCG has been improving over many years.  They are nestled in and around various rental properties of WCG (133 Chandler Street, 98/102 Austin Street) and existing homeownership properties, (141-143 Austin, 130-134 Austin) and many other properties that have been completed over time.   WCG purchased a few of these properties as early at 2006 and as recent as December 2010. As time has passed and with the collapse in the economy in the last two years we determined the best solution and only solution was to create a tax credit rental project.  We are grateful for our lending/funding partners (City of Worcester, Mass Housing Investment Corp., Mass Housing Partnership, Department of Housing and Community Development, Life Initiative, and Affordable Housing Trust Fund) as with all of their help we are currently under construction with all six buildings.  The buildings will be completed at staggard times throughout 2013 with the first one (84 Piedmont Street as early as March 2013 ending with 7-11 Bellevue Street in October of 2013.  As these units become available we will post application information to our web site.  In the meantime please call our office to get on our waitlist 508.754.0908.

Austin Corridor Project

Read more: Austin Corridor Project Description

ac2 compAustin Corridor ll Limited Partnership is excited to announce that applications will be made available on Friday April 19, 2013.  If you are on the wait list, an application will be mailed directly to you.  Applications can be picked up at Worcester Common Ground, 5 Piedmont Street or from Maloney Properties who will be managing the rent up and the properties, located at 9 May Street.  Completed applications will be accepted between April 19, 2013-June 19, 2013.  A lottery wll be conducted on June 21, 2013 at 9 May Street in Worcester.  Applicants will be notified of placement during the week of June 24th through the 28th.   Please contact Michelle Fuller of Maloney Properties at 508.752-0833.  You may also obtain the application forms on our website (below) or by contacting Maloney Properties.   Click a form title below to download a PDF copy.
 

Worcester Common Ground - Looking Through The Years

We want Massachusetts to be a place where people put down roots, raise their families and do business, and that's why expanding affordable housing opportunities remains a top priority. -- Gov. Deval Patrick

 

WCG History

"The earth is common ground and...the idea is taking form that the land must be held for safekeeping, that one generation is…responsible for the next…"

--E.B. White.

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Success Stories

"Without Worcester Common Ground...we would never have been able to afford a home, never mind having a house with a handicapped-accessible apartment that allows José's grandmother to remain at home." -- Beverly Grandmaison, CLT Homeowner

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WCG target area

 
 

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Target Area

Our target area, which we refer to as the Greater Piedmont Area, encompasses three Census tracts, 7314, 7315 and 7316 within the City of Worcester (see map below). These tracts are generally bound by Salisbury Street on the north, Main Street on the east, May Street on the south and Park Avenue on the west.

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Rationale

There is an affordable housing crisis in Worcester. From 1980-90, more than 7,600 units of new housing were built in Worcester, but in the following decade, only 1,400 were produced..

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The Staff at WCG

Our staff is highly qualified in each of their specialties and frequently collaborates to participate in events or to get out a grant or project application on deadline. The stability that is reflected in the length of service has helped us manage even with the reduction in staff that was required in past years due to the financial challenges facing CDCs.

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