Manchester eyes three parcels to sell to generate funds for affordable housing trust
Manchester aldermen are being asked to deem three vacant parcels of land as surplus so they can be sold to generate funds for the city's affordable housing trust.
The request mirrors the process undertaken in 2024, when 15 vacant lots were sold by auction generated $1.13 million, 100% of which went to the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
One of the parcels is located at Smyth Road, with the other two at Sheffield Road.
The Smyth Road parcel is 30,451 square feet, or 0.70 acres, and has been city-owned for 70 years (since 1955).
The Sheffield Road parcels are a combined 41 acres. Lot 01 has been owned by the city for 24 years (since 2001) and Lot 02 for 65 years (1960).
If deemed surplus and ultimately sold off, 100% of the net proceeds would go into the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund after satisfying all outstanding balances and transferring 10% of the proceeds into the Tax Deeded Property Reserve Account (the latter process only applies to the sale of the Sheffield Road lot,. since these parcels were tax deeded.
The aldermanic Committee on Lands and Buildings will take up the request Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. at City Hall.
Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais first mentioned the effort to identify city-owned vacant parcels that could be sold to generate housing funds when he took office in 2024.
The lots identified surplus and sold in 2024 were as follows:
• Wellington Hill Road, Lot 645-41.
• Wellington Hill Road, Lots 645-39 and 645-40.
• Erie Street, Lot 455-10, and Boynton Street, Lot 658-32A.
• Calef Road and Titus Avenue, Lot 554-17C.
• North Bay Street, Lot 770-23.
• Boston Street, Lots 283-1, 2, 3, and 8.
• Patterson Street, Lot 449-16B.
• Bicentennial Drive, 560-95A.
• Saint James Avenue, Lot 579-29.
• Pinehurst Avenue, Lot 685-14.
• Gosselin Road, Lot 750-11.
• Huntress Street, Lots 753-9E and 9G.
• Hackett Hill Road, 767-4B.
• Leo Street, Lot 853-34.
• 44 Trolly Court, Lot 897-145.
Last year aldermen voted unanimously to use $200,000 from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to create eight new units of affordable housing for homeless women, a move made possible due to the sale of the vacant city lots.
The eight units were made available to homeless women at a rate of $800 a month.
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