by Sam Lattof | Dec 3, 2025
Landlords with Section 8 tenants are only getting 25 percent of their payments from the Boston Housing Authority this month. Blame last month’s federal government shutdown.
by Sam Lattof | Jun 29, 2025
Potential cuts to federal Section 8 vouchers could put landlords in an uncomfortable position and hurt housing production.
by Steve Adams | May 27, 2025
The owner of a large Roslindale senior health care complex is seeking to expand its capacity with plans for a new building that could receive partial funding from local and federal sources.
by Jay Fitzgerald | May 25, 2025
Two new Allston-Brighton projects are betting that good design can make good neighbors of musicians and apartments. Here’s why.
by Steve Adams | Apr 24, 2025
The city of Boston is seeking developers to build affordable housing and music studios at a Brighton property recently donated by life science developer IQHQ Inc.
by Sam Lattof | Apr 2, 2025
A 6-story, 96-unit affordable housing development in Jamaica Plain could be headed for a groundbreaking soon after landing financing.
by Steve Adams | Mar 13, 2025
A joint venture of WinnCompanies and the Boston Housing Authority completed financing to begin a decades-long redevelopment of Boston’s Mary Ellen McCormack public housing complex.
by Steve Adams | Mar 20, 2024
As Boston seeks to stimulate housing production on publicly-owned properties, a newly-completed project in Brighton could become a model for forming partnerships with private developers.
by James Sanna | Jan 26, 2024
Boston officials announced a deal Thursday that will make one of the city’s public housing projects the first to get a green heating system.
by James Sanna | Jan 10, 2024
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has pledged to dramatically grow the city’s stock of public housing units. But the effort will hinge on public officials and private developers collaborating quickly this year.
by Steve Adams | Jan 9, 2024
In her biggest policy speech of the year, Mayor Michelle Wu laid out her pledges for 2024.
by Steve Adams | Dec 18, 2023
Another Boston public housing complex is slated for redevelopment as a mixed-income complex that would add 200 apartments to the site.
by Steve Adams | Dec 13, 2023
Boston nonprofit developer Preservation of Affordable Housing and its partner Caste Capital were picked to construct 119 affordable housing units and a new library branch in Boston’s West End.
by James Sanna | Dec 7, 2023
A seemingly-obscure bureaucratic move announced by State Housing Secretary Ed Augustus Wednesday could be transformative for renters with housing vouchers, experts say.
by James Sanna | Sep 1, 2023
One of Boston’s most prominent, Black-owned construction companies has accused a well-known affordable housing developer of unfairly dismissing it from a public housing renovation project in Boston.
by James Sanna | Jun 11, 2023
Former city councilor Kenzie Bok is bringing big ideas and big visions to her new job as the incoming head of the Boston Housing Authority, including a goal to bring around 2,500 new public housing units to the city.
by James Sanna | Apr 5, 2023
One of the Boston City Council’s leading voices on housing issues will become the next head of the Boston Housing Authority.
by Steve Adams | Mar 22, 2023
A $66 million renovation project will update a 535-unit Mission Hill public housing complex following a recapitalization that transfers ownership to a tenant coalition.
by James Sanna | Mar 18, 2022
Seven proposed Boston buildings are about to start testing whether real commercial development can move past carbon-spewing construction materials in a big way.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 9, 2021
A partnership between Boston-based Trinity Financial and East Boston Community Development Corp. has begun construction of the third and final phase of the Overlook Terrace at Orient Heights project, modernizing the East Boston public housing complex.