1 Holyoke proposes three tiny‑house and affordable‑housing projects to CPA committee

Michael Moriarty, representing 1 Holyoke, presented three interconnected applications to the Holyoke City CPA committee seeking preservation and housing funds: completion and siting of a UMass design‑build tiny house as an affordable rental, acquisition and redevelopment of a Pine Street receivership parcel into a homeownership development that would include a tiny house, and funding for a city‑specific tiny‑house planning and policy study.

Moriarty described an ongoing partnership with the University of Massachusetts design‑build program that has delivered two tiny houses to Holyoke in prior years; a third house (the “eighth sister” project) has exterior work and interior framing completed and is slated to be sited on an East White Street lot owned by 1 Holyoke. He said the East White lot has roughly 53 feet of frontage and is about 7,000 square feet; the project already holds a building permit, helical piers are installed, and the students completed much of the exterior work. Moriarty said the current siting and finishing budget for that project is about $117,000; the UMass team is supported by a $40,000 contribution and an additional anonymous donor for part of the prior house costs.

For the East White Street unit, Moriarty said 1 Holyoke intends to hold the house as long‑term rental and to…