Previously owned by the city as two parks, these two parking lots (115,000 square feet) sit on the outer edge of a densely developed neighborhood of two-, three-, and four-family buildings. Waltham currently faces a zero-percent vacancy rate and these two lots are an underutilized neighborhood resource. These sites can be used for a creative mixed-use development that combines needed affordable rental housing, factory parking, and commercial space.

Acquisition and rehabilitation of a vacant building to produce 45 units of affordable housing in Roxbury's Dudley Square. Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation is negotiating a purchase and sales agreement for the proposed site.

Acquisition and adaptive reuse of Symmes Hospital, which is closing. Affordable housing will be one of the uses, but not the sole use. The site includes two buildings: a modern office building (150,000 square feet) and an older vacant structure (28,000 square feet). The current owner, Lahey Clinic, will continue to lease some of the space. The site poses three challenges: the site consists of 18 steeply sloped acres; it will require a zoning change from hospital use to residential use; and acquisition may be difficult. The town owns four acres adjacent to the site, which are presently leased to the hospital and which will revert back to town control once the hospital closes.

With funding from the Fannie Mae and FleetBank Financial Foundations, the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University and Housing Partners, Inc., have joined in a partnership with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development, and the Boston Society of Architects to expedite the production and rehabilitation of mixed-income, mixed-use housing in the Grove Hall section of Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. Known as the World Class Housing Collaborative, this partnership will unite community leaders and political representatives from the neighborhood with developers, architects, primary and secondary financial institutions, and city and state agencies to be a catalyst for expediting the development of new urban infill housing. The primary aim of the proposed Grove Hall project will be to develop scattered-site, small-scale multifamily housing.

Reuse of the historic section of the former police station to create nine to 12 units of housing. The RHA would like to make all the units affordable, as only 4.5 percent of the town's housing is affordable, and there are only a few sites for future affordable-housing developments. However, a mixed-income use is possible. RHA currently owns 20,000 square feet of land with a two-family building currently in use. The town owns the two-story, brick, former police station.