Massachusetts suffers from a major shortage of “missing middle housing.” Expanding missing middle housing is essential to easing the state’s affordability crisis, supporting aging in place, diversifying neighborhoods and stabilizing rents.

Seventeen years ago, we founded DREAM Collaborative with a simple idea: traditional approaches weren’t solving our housing crisis. Since then, we’ve built a practice that integrates architecture, planning, and development to deliver missing middle housing—creating thoughtfully designed, right-scale homes that meet community needs, expand affordable options and fit seamlessly into neighborhoods.

Here’s how we turn vision into thriving missing middle housing projects that serve communities and deliver real impact:

• Community First: DREAM engages local residents to ensure your project meets real neighborhood needs.
• Equitable Visioning: We co-create goals that balance affordability, family-sized units and gentle density.
• Integrated Delivery: Our in-house team streamlines complex projects often overlooked by traditional developers.
• Creative Financing: We combine public tools, mission-driven capital, and market investment to unlock opportunities.
• Enduring Outcomes: DREAM delivers sustainable, inclusive homes that strengthen communities—and your project’s success.

We are seeking partners to expand this model to new sites and cities throughout the country. With DREAM, your next missing middle project isn’t just possible—it’s built to thrive.

2147 Washington Street serves as a model for inclusive infill development. Located on a former parking lot, this 99,000 sf mixed-use building is Passive House-certified. All marketed primarily for local artists, the development creates housing for a wide range of incomes, with 62 affordable rental units and 12 for-sale condos for a total of 74 units. The project includes an interior courtyard, rotating art installations, workshop, retail and commercial spaces. DREAM was co-developer with New Atlantic Development and served as architect on the project.

DREAM is both developer and architect for 88 Andover Street in Andover, MA – which exemplifies missing middle housing by delivering 40 modern, age-restricted units. With 10 affordable units for households at or below 80% AMI , the development supports economic equity, neighborhood stability, and inclusive community living—all on previously vacant lots. 

DREAM is both developer and architect for 24 Westminster Avenue – a new 12-unit affordable home-ownership project currently under construction. The project is located on an infill site on a formerly vacant lot and serves as a sustainable model for compact, mixed-income housing. The development concept is meant to maximize the number of units, making the project financially feasible while addressing a need for smaller units.