Five low-income housing projects — in Easton, Hanover, Hingham, Quincy, and Wareham — are slated to receive more than $11 million in state and federal housing tax credits and other subsidies to provide shelter for the needy, add local jobs, and boost overall economic development opportunities. [...]

Once completed, the developments would create or preserve 1,642 units of rental housing, including 1,415 affordable units for low- and moderate-income families, according to the plan. Of those units, 246 would go to families earning less than 30 percent of area median income.[...]

In Wareham, $939,167 in federal low-income housing tax credits and $145,300 in state-issued low-income housing tax credits would help complete the third phase of Gardens at Union Pond, a 144-unit Gatehouse Group affordable-housing project. The new funding would create 40 affordable rental units, of which four would go to families with extremely low incomes.