BOSTON (AP) — Boston police say they're narrowing the gap between how often black residents are subjected to stops, searches and frisks as compared with whites and other ethnic groups. But an Associated Press review of recently released police data suggests the improvement is more modest than the department claims.
Information that could shed light on whether the stops were appropriate in the first place also hasn't been made public, nearly two months after the initial release of nearly 150,000 "Field Interrogation, Observation, Frisk and/or Search" reports.
BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh sketched out plans to push down the costs of building and owning housing to foster development of more units that middle-income Bostonians can afford in a speech Tuesday to the Boston Municipal Research Bureau.
In his remarks, which touched on his economic development efforts over the past year, Walsh cited permits issued in 2015 for 4,194 middle-income housing units. He also described several pilot programs from the city's Housing Innovation Lab that focus on "the diverse needs of the middle-market," such as zoning relief, developing designs for smaller homes, setting up land trusts for nonprofit groups and creating a one-stop Internet portal to help first-time home buyers find information they need.
