McManus Manor opens: 41 affordable homes on Main Street, and the woman who inspired them
The Acton Housing Authority cut the ribbon Monday on housing for seniors and people with disabilities, built with a 91% Town Meeting vote, state and private financing, and one family’s memories. When Keith McManus was in seventh grade, he spent a summer helping his mother finish Windsor Green, Acton’s first public housing. One of his jobs was labeling the mailboxes in the mail room with the names of future residents. On move-in day, he carried their boxes off the trucks, matching each name to a face. On Monday, at the ribbon cutting for McManus Manor, the new 41-apartment building named…

































