2021 Year in Review: Micheal Mattos, Executive Director, Affordable Housing and Services Collaborative, Inc.

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021? The completion and opening of the Walker School Apartments in Taunton earlier this fall. The brand new 40-unit apartment community that includes an enhanced coordinated service model is the former site of the long-vacant Walker School and is now home to seniors 62 and older and non-elderly disabled individuals. A true collaboration of funding sources and organizations came together to support the project, which included redevelopment of the vacant former school into 40 new one-bedroom apartments (16 apartments in the original school building plus an addition containing 24 apartments).