Father Bill’s & MainSpring Celebrates Completion of 24-Unit Housing Development in Stoughton
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Contact: Virginia DePina, (774) 297-7975, vdepina@helpfbms.org
[STOUGHTON, Mass., Nov. 20, 2025] — Father Bill’s & MainSpring (FBMS) has completed a 24-unit permanent housing development at 1919 Washington Street, transforming the former Stoughton Motel into studio efficiency apartments for individuals who have experienced homelessness.
FBMS celebrated the project with a ribbon cutting on November 14, welcoming nearly 150 community leaders and partners, including Congressman Stephen Lynch, Secretary Ed Augustus (EOHLC), and members of the Massachusetts Legislature.
The $10.5 million redevelopment of the 3.88-acre property began in March 2025 and includes three buildings with 12,100 square feet of living space. Two units are fully wheelchair accessible. FBMS case managers will provide on-site supportive services to help residents maintain long-term housing stability.
The new housing, expected to open to tenants this winter, arrives at a time when individual homelessness has risen significantly locally, as well as statewide and across the U.S. FBMS provided emergency shelter to an average of 347 individual adults per night in fiscal year (FY) 2025, a 26% increase from FY2024 and a 40% jump from FY2023.
FBMS President & CEO John Yazwinski said, “The tenants moving into these units could be your mom, your granddad, your sister, your cousin, your son, your daughter… it could be you, it could be me. You care about the wellbeing of our most vulnerable because you know that their well-being is our well-being. By supporting this project and others like it, you are supporting the health and sustainability of your community. We are grateful for you, and at this point in time, we really need you.”
The Stoughton units contribute to FBMS’s strategic goal to develop 150 units of supportive housing in the coming years. Earlier this year, FBMS launched a comprehensive fundraising campaign to not only develop urgently needed housing across Southern Massachusetts, but also ongoing maintenance, property operations, and case management support. The campaign aims to raise $10 million total, with the Alvarium Foundation already donating the first $5 million.
The project was made possible through support from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing & Livable Communities, Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services/MHSA, the Town of Stoughton (CPA), South Shore Bank, CEDAC, and private donors.
Development partners included NeighborWorks Housing Solutions (development consultant/OPM), West Work (architect), New Vision Enterprises (general contractor), Decelle-Burke-Sala & Associates (civil engineer), and project attorneys Hackett Feinberg, P.C. and John E. McCluskey, Esq., P.C.
About Father Bill’s & MainSpring
Father Bill’s & MainSpring (FBMS) is the leading provider of services to prevent and end homelessness in Southern Massachusetts. The agency, founded in the early 1980s by a group of interfaith and community leaders, helps more than 5,000 people annually who are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness. FBMS, a proud partner of the United Way of Greater Plymouth County and the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency with administrative offices in Quincy and Brockton and program offices throughout Southern Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.helpfbms.org.