SECURING AFFORDABILITY
ONE HOME AT A TIME
Through our Home Buy Down program, the Falmouth Housing Trust buys market rate homes and turns them into community assets.
How our Buy Down Program Works:
- We purchase homes at market rates using contributions from our donors and the Town of Falmouth Affordable Housing Fund.
- The Home is re-sold in a few months to a working family at a significantly reduced price.
- The home is restricted on resale to the new buyer as affordable and attainable housing.
For more details, contact the FHT.
Financing provided by:
Ensuring Falmouth stays home for all.
Are You Ready to Buy?
Our Ready to Buy list is a fantastic opportunity for those looking to buy a deed-restricted affordable home. By signing up, you’ll gain exclusive access to notifications from Falmouth Housing Trust about homes available for purchase. Join our Ready to Buy List today and take the first step towards finding your perfect place to call home.
FHT is looking for
DONATIONS of LAND
or HOUSING!
Please make the creation of Affordable Workforce Housing Possible.
Every donation supports our young residents and families who are essential to keeping our community vibrant and economically strong.
In addition to monetary donations, FHT welcomes gifts of land, existing housing, and “bargain sales” of existing housing for tax benefit purposes.
Don’t forget, donating real estate may give you the opportunity to avoid capital gains taxes!
FHT is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Home for Sale Cross Road, East Falmouth
Enjoy this fully renovated and updated home in Waquoit! The house features a new kitchen and bath, new flooring, and a large, private yard. Join our "Ready to Buy" list by February 15, 2026 to be eligible for this home.
Falmouth Housing Trust Gets New Chief Development Officer
Katherine M. Ayson, whose career has centered on building community partnerships and fundraising for mission-driven nonprofits, has been named chief development officer of the Falmouth Housing Trust.
Annual Building Dreams Fundraising Reception a Success!
Falmouth Housing Trust would like to thank our sponsors and contributors, as well as all attendees who supported our annual Building Dreams Fundraising Reception on October 23rd!
Home for Sale Cross Road, East Falmouth
Enjoy this fully renovated and updated home in Waquoit! The house features a new kitchen and bath, new flooring, and a large, private yard. Join our "Ready to Buy" list by February 15, 2026 to be eligible for this home.
Falmouth Housing Trust Gets New Chief Development Officer
Katherine M. Ayson, whose career has centered on building community partnerships and fundraising for mission-driven nonprofits, has been named chief development officer of the Falmouth Housing Trust.
Annual Building Dreams Fundraising Reception a Success!
Falmouth Housing Trust would like to thank our sponsors and contributors, as well as all attendees who supported our annual Building Dreams Fundraising Reception on October 23rd!
Our Board of Directors Thanks You for Your Support
Building Dreams in Falmouth
Fundraising Reception
Thursday, October 23, 2025
5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
The Coonamessett
311 Gifford Street, Falmouth
Hors d’oeuvres, Cash Bar, Raffle, Live & Silent Auctions
Because of your support, we can make the dream of home ownership possible,
and help our community!
Thank you to our donors, sponsors, volunteers, community partners and all who made our Building Dreams Annual Fundraising Event a success! We raised $78,000 for support of the Trust’s mission to develop affordable and attainable workforce housing. Because of your generosity, we are able to create more housing opportunities and help local families build brighter futures in Falmouth! Together we are building community, opportunity and hope.
DIAMOND SPONSORS
Martha’s Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation
PLATINUM SPONSORS
The Falmouth Walk
The Joel and Blanche Seifer Family
GOLD SPONSORS
Dalpe Excavation
Eastern Bank Foundation
SILVER SPONSORS
Lori and George Andrews
Cape Cod Five Bank
Derouen | Levinson Group
Foley & Foley, PC
Eleanor Ling
Mid-Cape Home Centers
New Wave Printing & Design, Inc.
BRONZE SPONSORS
Eric Asendorf – Janney Sound Financial Advisors
Joan and Robert Bates
Christopher and Laura Lawrence
Bennett Plumbing & Heating
Falmouth Lumber
The Valle Group
This Year’s Live Auction Items Include…
- Patriots Tickets located in the Putnam Club
- Maine Chalet
- Catered Dinner & Wine for 6
- Exciting Adventures
- Waterville Valley – Condo for 10
- 3 Nights in Downtown Nantucket – Sleeps 9
YOUR PARTICIPATION WILL DOUBLE ITS IMPACT!
Up to $10,000 will be matched by Martha’s Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation
Thomas Zine
Maro Titus has a deep connection to the Falmouth Community that dates back to her childhood, shaping her passion for the area. Leveraging her successful career in healthcare administration, Maro has transitioned her expertise to Kinlin Grover Compass Real Estate. As a dedicated agent, she strives to understand each client’s unique needs, bringing a wealth of marketing knowledge and enthusiasm to the real estate practice. With a background in executive leadership encompassing strategic planning, government affairs, and business development, Maro’s professional journey is marked by a commitment to excellence.
Marie Bigelow retired in 2014 from Corporate Banking in Boston after 28 years, mostly with BankBoston, Citizens, and Santander Bank. Her banking experience is primarily as a Senior Credit professional with experience in diversified lending arenas including Non-Profit, Large Corporate, Middle Market, Asset Based, Leveraged Finance and Commercial Real Estate Lending. She brings strong financial analysis, real estate finance, and loan structuring experience to her new role at FHT.
Sudie Gifford comes to our board with an extremely varied background in arts, education, finance, public relations, and charity work.
David Sutkowy has lived in Falmouth since 2020. 
After completing a 35 year career in marketing and communications, most recently as Senior Vice-President of Marketing for Dunkin’ U.S. – with previous marketing leadership roles at The Gillette Company and Ocean Spray Cranberries – Tom Manchester currently sits on the board and is an investor in a start-up business, The Mobile Locker Company and is also an instructor for Sports Marketing at Stonehill College. 
Savannah Fabbio lives in East Falmouth with her husband Jay and is a Mortgage Loan Officer for Shamrock Home Loans in Osterville. Prior to this she was an Assistant Vice President and Branch Manager for The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod and Assistant Manager at Citizens Bank.
Information coming soon.
Troy Clarkson is an author and speaker with more than a quarter-century of experience in positions of leadership in government and public service. He has been actively involved in his beloved Falmouth since his teen years, when he wrote and published ‘The Cove Chronicle,’ a newspaper that he sold door-to-door for a quarter and that documented the lives of his friends and neighbors.
Information coming soon.
Dave Garrison and his wife, Lori, moved to Falmouth in 2014 after full and interesting careers in Washington DC. Dave was raised in the Boston suburbs. He has been coming to the Cape every summer since 1944. 
Carey Murphy lives in Waquoit with his wife of 31 years, Martha. Their three adult sons are all employed in the ski business, a sport that Carey loves to spend his winter months enjoying. They recently sold their retail business, Kensington’s at Mashpee Commons, after owning and operating it for 29 years.
Kevin McCarthy joined the board of directors of the Falmouth Housing Trust in 2012. Kevin’s entire career has been spent pursuing various “oceans” related endeavors, first as a professional diver, followed by various senior level management positions at a number of oceanographic manufacturing companies, including Klein Associates and Teledyne Benthos. He holds a B.S. from Northeastern University and an M.B.A. from Suffolk University. In 2000, he joined Hydroid LLC, a startup subsea robotics company that was founded to commercialize the REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle technologies developed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2008, the company was acquired by the Norwegian company, Kongsberg Maritime. Kevin retired from his position of Vice President of Marketing in 2010 to devote more time to his passion for wildlife photography. Some of his work can be viewed at: www.McCarthyNatureImages.com.
Beth Ciarletta grew up in rural New Jersey then moved to Raleigh, NC for eighteen years where she met her husband Michael, co-founded a business, married and began their family. She relocated to Falmouth in 2012 with her husband to raise their children in a smaller community-based town, and to be closer to family. Her husband’s family lives in Norwood, MA and vacationed in Falmouth and on Cape Cod for many years.
Kenneth Buckland and his family; wife Nicolette and two boys, moved to Falmouth during Hurricane Gloria in 1985. They moved to town so that Ken could take the position as the Town Planner.
Joan Bates has lived in Falmouth with her husband, Robert, since 2002. Prior to that, the couple lived in Newton. Joan’s 25-year professional career was in special education and nonprofit management.
Susan Roman is the Owner of 
Joanne O’Sullivan is a real estate attorney who has been practicing law in Falmouth since 1995. She is a self described “wash-ashore” living on Cape Cod for close to 20 years. Joanne grew up in South Boston, and graduated from the University of Chicago and Boston College Law School. Attorney O’Sullivan has been a sole practitioner for the past six years. She is married and her children are enrolled in the Falmouth Public Schools. Ms. O’Sullivan joined the FHT Board of Directors in 2009 and became Vice President in 2011.
Director, Addie Drolette, is a Falmouth native and makes her home in East Falmouth. Most of Addie’s professional career has been spent serving the mortgage financing needs of the community of Falmouth. She is presently a Senior Residential Loan Officer with Martha’s Vineyard Bank.