Author: Jordan Frias
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United Way’s ‘Homeless Connect’ Helps Families in Need
Families and individuals looking for backpacks, new clothing, job opportunities and on-the-spot dental exams free of charge attended United Way’s “Project Homeless Connect,” an open resource fair held at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury on Friday, August 11. Over 350 volunteers guided more than 200 families through the resource and service fair, which included…
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Revised Inclusionary Development Policy Creates More Affordable Housing Units, Report Finds
The planning and development agency in Boston released its first report on the creation of affordable housing by private real estate developers and found that the number of units created more than doubled over the last three years. The report, entitled “Bridging the Gap: Creating Middle Income Housing through Inclusionary Development,” states that an average…
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Revised Inclusionary Development Policy Creates More Affordable Housing Units, Report Finds
The planning and development agency in Boston released its first report on the creation of affordable housing by private real estate developers and found that the number of units created more than doubled over the last three years. The report, entitled “Bridging the Gap: Creating Middle Income Housing through Inclusionary Development,” states that an average…
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Residents Rally Against Federal Cuts, Call for Affordable Homes
Hundreds of residents from across Massachusetts gathered in front of Faneuil Hall on Monday, July 31 to take a stand against President Trump’s proposed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and to make a plea to Congress to increase funding for affordable homes. The Trump Administration is looking to cut the…
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Senior Housing in Brighton to Add Units for Disabled, Chronically Homeless
Seniors looking to live in Brighton this fall may be in luck now that the Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly (JCHE) campus is close to having 61 more units of affordable housing. The units are being built at 132 Chestnut Hill Ave., which is down the road from 30 Wallingford Road where JCHE residents…
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Residents Rally Against Federal Cuts, Call for Affordable Homes
Hundreds of residents from across Massachusetts gathered in front of Faneuil Hall on Monday, July 31 to take a stand against President Trump’s proposed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and to make a plea to Congress to increase funding for affordable homes. The Trump Administration is looking to cut the…
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Cranston Demonstrators Fined for Violating Anti-Panhandling Ordinance, Lose Argument in Court
A month after the city of Cranston, Rhode Island, passed an anti-solicitation ordinance, housing advocates and demonstrators were fined $85 for violating that law to protest its enactment. Those fined lost a battle in court recently on the grounds that they deliberately violated the ordinance to distribute fliers at the intersection of Sockanosset Crossroads and…
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Men on Trial for House Fire, Death of a Homeless Woman Last November
Two men were arrested and charged with the death of a homeless woman who was killed in a fire in November 2016 in Roxbury, according to court documents. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts alleges that Marcus Dozier, 46, and Kenneth Ford, 43, intentionally set a Roxbury house on fire on November 5, 2016 and allegedly told…
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Providence Mayor Says Smoking Ban Targets the Homeless
Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Jorge Elorza is pushing back on a downtown smoking ban ordinance that he says unfairly discriminates against the homeless. Elorza claims that an added section in the “Streets, Sidewalks and Public Places” ordinance prohibiting smoking from Fulton Street to Westminster Street by Kennedy Plaza will mainly impact the homeless who hang…