affordable housing

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.

On a spring afternoon, Pamela Saucer-Richardson stood in a grassy vacant lot on Erie Street, a block from Franklin Park in Dorchester, and remembered when her father owned the property more than 30 years ago.

For Boston-area renters, high rental prices, low availability and a rising cost of living are some of the challenges that can stand in the way of stable housing.

Down the street from Nubian Square, in a little room on the outside of a new affordable housing building, two enormous cabinets hum away.

Taking another step toward bolstering affordable homeownership in Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu announced last week the team of developers who will build 70 residential units on 15 parcels of land in Dorchester and Mattapan.

Chanda Smart has a motto: People who build affordable housing never had to live in it.

When the blue and green ribbon was cut, fluttering in the chill of a late February day, it marked the end of about a decade of work that brings over 50 units of new housing to Roxbury.

In the city of Boston, there is one agency that might have more power than anything else over what you see around you: the buildings, parking lots, apartments and parks that shape your neighborhood.

Governor Maura Healey’s proposal to boost universal early education in Massachusetts would expand access to state-affiliated pre-kindergarten for 4-year-olds, increase who is eligible for child care financial assistance and continue a state grant program supporting child care providers.

James Berger checked into the Sonesta Simply Suites Hotel in Braintree last November during a moment of desperation. He and his 9-year-old daughter had lost their housing in Roxbury when the relative with whom they were living was evicted.