affordable housing

Affordable housing, historic preservation, and open space in Boston will get a $38 million boost through the approval of 52 projects to receive funding through the Community Preservation Act.

A quick dive into housing statistics across Massachusetts produces a discouraging picture for the future of the commonwealth.

On Monday, legislators, housing justice groups, landlords, tenants and other supporters gathered at the Massachusetts State House for a briefing organized by Homes for All Massachusetts on proposed legislation for rent stabilization in Massachusetts.

In late February, two days before she had to vacate her apartment, 73-year-old Margaret Nichols got a knock on her door. She’d been rushing to fill moving boxes and pack up her apartment of more than 20 years. After years of paying her climbing rent at the recently rebranded “SoMa at the T” complex in Mattapan, she’d spent nearly all her savings and had to give up.

Under bright, colorful lights, to the beat of music, high schoolers across Boston gathered to kick off a new opportunity to make their voices heard.

A new affordable housing development in Upham’s Corner that will combine homeownership opportunities with new facilities for the area’s public library branch was one of 12 projects for which the city announced housing funding.

Next summer, when work on 24 Westminster Ave. is finished, the 12 units currently under construction will go on the market with an average sale price below $600,000. The units are compact, thoughtfully designed and, according to Dream Development Managing Director Gregory Minott, demonstrate the possibility for building affordable housing without subsidies.

For the Boston Housing Authority and Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, a community development nonprofit, last Tuesday marked the completed renovation of 146 affordable housing units in the South End.

When the Boston Foundation presented its 2024 annual Greater Boston housing report card at an event Nov. 12, the results weren’t particularly positive.

More than 20 years ago, amid rising rents and gentrification, a pair of nonprofit community developers teamed up with the city of Boston to build and sell affordable housing units to families on the back side of Mission Hill.

As major cities around the country struggle with providing affordable housing to their long-standing residents, Boston reigns supreme as a poster child for gentrification.

A multi-billion-dollar bond bill aiming to tackle the state’s housing crisis was passed by the state legislature last week. Barely.