public housing

As heavy rains poured down in Boston last Thursday, a celebration for the concluded renovation of the historic Lenox Apartments in Lower Roxbury moved indoors.

A new pilot program will bring cleaner heating and cooling to public housing residents in Dorchester using ground-source heat pumps.

When the first rehabbed units in the Mission Main public housing development came online in 1999, it was the culmination of a seven-year, nearly $100 million process during which the 1940 brick-and-concrete development was razed and rebuilt as a community of three-story wood-frame buildings.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and other elected officials on Tuesday celebrated the beginning of construction on the Lenox/Camden public housing developments in Lower Roxbury.