affordable housing

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.

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.