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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Mayor Michelle Wu announces $50 million housing equity plan

Wu invests millions into affordable housing

Casey Choung January 28, 2022
Mayor Michelle Wu announced an allocation of $40 million to create 718 affordable housing units across the city of Boston as part of her housing justice plan to reduce housing discrimination.
A street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced Tuesday that 1,023 new units of affordable housing were created last year in Jamaica Plain and other neighborhoods. COURTESY SARAH NICHOLS VIA FLICKR

Boston adds affordable housing units with Boston 2030 initiative

Taylor Brokesh February 4, 2021
The City of Boston permitted 1,023 new units of affordable housing across Boston in 2020 — the largest addition in three years.
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EDITORIAL: Boston’s new mayoral leadership must build on progressive policies

Editors January 28, 2021
With Mayor Marty Walsh soon to leave office and serve as Labor Secretary under the Biden administration, our city’s leadership must begin to address the difficulties we are left with. We must continue to hold our elected officials to their promises and push Boston to become a city that doesn’t thrive off of inequalities but rather fosters communities of growth and equality.
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