Current Projects

Holley Place

The town leased this property to the Salisbury Housing Committee (SHC). Construction is now underway. Below is a rendering of what the new building will look like. It will contain 14 apartments.

Salisbury Affordable Housing Commission hosted a series of community forums in 2017 to seek resident input on housing goals and locations. The “Holley Block” was voted the most popular site for new affordable housing at these forums. This site used to have an apartment building on it many years ago that was taken down.

Dresser Woods

37 Railroad Street

The Property

The site of this development is a 5.3-acre lot that was donated to the Salisbury Housing Committee by a private citizen, Jim Dresser, in 2022 for the purpose of building affordable rental homes.

The parcel is adjacent to the 66-foot-wide retired railroad corridor, which contains the Railroad Ramble, also known as the Rail Trail, on the east end of Railroad Street in the village of Salisbury and used to be referred to as “East Railroad Street” but has now been named “Dresser Woods”.

This property has been chosen for affordable housing because:

  • It was donated to the Salisbury Housing Committee, Inc.

  • It has access to town water and sewer.

  • It is a level building site with excellent soils and mature trees.

  • It is a 250-yard walk to the center of Salisbury Village, which allows the development to only minimally impact parking demand in the village.

  • The property was identified as a site for affordable housing in The Town of Salisbury’s adopted 2018 Affordable Housing Plan and updated 2023 Affordable Housing Plan.

The Proposed Development

The Salisbury Housing Committee is planning to build 20 rental homes on the property in a cluster of nine buildings designed to reflect a traditional New England style. There will be handicapped accessible and adaptable units.

The development will have access to the property by using a short section of less than one-half the width of the 66-foot-wide retired railroad corridor. The required distance is less than 150 feet from the end of the pavement on Railroad Street.

Current Status

The project received approval from the town’s wetlands commission and planning and zoning commission in 2024. Final site engineering and architectural plans have been completed and the project has gone out to bid. The project has been awarded funding from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston’s Affordable Housing Program. An application for construction funding has been submitted to the CT Department of Housing.

Bostwick apartments

With the support of donors and the previous owners of the property we were able to purchase this 1850’s 3-family home on Bostwick Street. It needed a lot of love and two of the apartments were uninhabitable. We have completed many renovations on Unit A and Unit B is now ready for occupancy. Unit C needs to be completely rebuilt and we’re starting that work soon.