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Boston sets affordable-housing record even as thousands still wait

BOSTON – Boston's pipeline to create affordable housing last year reached its highest level since record-keeping began, according to City Hall, which also said more than 28,000 city households would qualify for the units if enough existed. Even so, the city said the proportion of housing that is

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Baker says North End project a win for Boston

BOSTON – Praising it as the "ultimate win" for Boston, Gov. Charlie Baker joined officials Thursday to break ground on a project that will create 239 units of affordable housing, a parking garage and a 220-room hotel near TD Boston Garden on Causeway Street. "One of the most

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Report highlights challenges for Boston’s elders

BOSTON – A divide separates older Bostonians from younger city residents in terms of access, while there are also distinct differences in needs between those in late middle age and those past 70, according to a report released Thursday by the Commission on the Affairs of the Elderly. Other major concerns

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Just-cause eviction: Rent control by another name

In a 1994 statewide referendum, Massachusetts voters chose to ban rent control in the Bay State; but a new proposal currently before the Boston City Council threatens to re-impose the outlawed practice through the back door. On March 14, the Boston City Council held a public hearing on the topic

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HUD mandates ‘affordable housing’ in affluent suburbs

(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration has started its push to expand low-income housing into "higher opportunity areas." The Department of Housing and Urban Development last week announced a "landmark" settlement agreement with Baltimore County that will serve as a catalyst to "promote housing mobility"

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Eviction proposal pits landlords against tenant group

BOSTON – Hundreds of tenant advocates and wary property owners crammed into a Boston City Council public hearing Monday to weigh in on a proposal that has the two groups at odds: Renters say it would create safeguards against eviction; landlords say it would slap them with thinly disguised rent controls.

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Boston agency OKs affordable housing, school projects

BOSTON – Plans to create 95 affordable housing units won approval Thursday from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, along with an expansion of Dorchester's Epiphany School, a 127-room hotel in East Boston and a new Harvard Business School auditorium in Allston. In the city's Chinatown area, two nonprofit