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A Boston voter submits their ballot. Mayor Kim Janey challenged the 2020 City of Boston Census count this week following recent research from Boston’s Planning and Development Agency citing the count underreporting the city’s student, incarcerated and foreign-born residents. CHLOE GRINBERG/ DFP FILE

Mayor Janey vows to contest 2020 Boston Census

Hailey Pitcher October 26, 2021
Acting Mayor Kim Janey challenged the 2020 U.S. Census count for Boston in an Oct. 21 letter.
Basket of gala apples

New community gardens planned for Mattapan, East Boston

Taylor Brokesh March 9, 2021
The pair of gardens will follow two different models of urban farming: one will be a food forest, the other a community farm.
First-generation homebuyers will be eligible for housing grants under a new policy developed by Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development and the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance. SOPHIE PARK/ DFP FILE

City to reallocate funds for first-generation homebuyers

Samuele Petruccelli February 12, 2021
Grants will be given as a 2-to-1 match, meaning that eligible homebuyers must contribute $2,500 of their own money to receive the full $5,000, and they must also earn less than the area median income,
On Tuesday, Gov. Charlie Baker extended a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures from Aug. 18 to Oct. 17 in an effort to help ease the burden of COVID-19 on vulnerable families. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Suspension of evictions and foreclosures extended

Katarzyna Jezak July 25, 2020
Gov. Charlie Baker extended Tuesday the moratorium on evictions and foreclosures until Oct. 17.
Braddock Park in Boston’s South End. A new city report found that Boston has the highest-percentage of income-restricted housing among any other major city in the country, with one-fifth of all housing units in Boston having some form of income restriction placed on them. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

A fifth of Boston housing units are income-restricted, City study finds

Guthrie Kuckes November 11, 2018
Mayor Martin Walsh released a report and database from the Boston Department of Neighborhood Development that showed that more than 54,000 housing units in Boston are income-restricted, meaning the rent is set at an affordable rate for qualifying families.
The City of Boston releases $13 million for affordable housing units as part of the Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030 plan. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

City allocates $13 million to affordable housing units

Sabrina Schnur September 18, 2017

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced the beginning of the release of $13 million, which is allocated for affordable housing projects in accordance with the Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030 plan,...

Boston University’s Medical Campus makes progress in the efforts to clean up the area in partnership with Mayor Martin Walsh's office and Project Place. PHOTO BY BRIAN SONG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Coalition makes progress revitalizing Medical Campus neighborhood

Till Kaeslin January 19, 2017

One month after Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced the city’s initiative to revitalize Lower Roxbury and South Boston neighborhoods, the city’s effort, in partnership with Boston University’s...

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