The Mattapan Community Development Corp., founded in 1996 to create more affordable housing for low- and middle-income residents, is all but defunct as it confronts financial struggles and a leadership vacuum, according to local officials. Unpaid taxes on some of its properties are piling up, city records show. It has failed to file a tax form, required of all non-profits, with the state Attorney General’s office. Its website has not been updated in nearly a year.
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134 Ballou Ave., 130 Ballou Ave., 10 Elizabeth St., 8 Elizabeth St., and 10 Verrill St may still have paper held by One United Bank. There are too many CDCs in Boston and elsewhere. Too many Executive Directors competing for the same shrinking pots of money. The Mattapan CDC was always in over it head - they had no in-house expertise or technical capacity to meet its mission. Some other local group should be able to step in a do a much better job. They face the same issues anyone else does in a downward-spiraling housing market.