288 Harrison Ave./Image courtesy of Bruner/Cott Associates

A $40 million contribution from city of Boston housing funds will be used to develop and preserve 718 affordable units in Chinatown, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain and Roxbury.

Nine projects were selected to receive a combined $14.6 million in Community Preservation Act funding from a field of 88 applicants, Mayor Michelle Wu and Boston housing officials announced today. Additional funding will be provided by the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Neighborhood Housing Trust.

Projects awarded funding include:

• $3.5 million for Beacon Communities & Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) for the development of the 288 Harrison Residence, an 85-unit mixed-income project in Chinatown.
• $2.5 million for the construction of VietAID’s Hamilton at Mt. Everett in Dorchester, a 4-story development with 36 one-bedroom income-restricted apartments, designed for individuals and couples 62 years and older.
• $2.1 million for Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corp.’s Talbot Commons II to create 42 income-restricted rental units on two vacant city-owned parcels in Dorchester.
• $601,527 for four units at Cruz Development’s Department of Mental Health Housing at the Harvard Commons campus in Dorchester. 
• $885,818 for the Affordable Housing & Services Collaborative’s Columbia West preservation development in Dorchester.
• $4.5 million for B’nai B’rith Housing’s development of 1201 River Street in Hyde Park that will create 63 senior housing units.
• $4.8 million for The Community Builders’ redevelopment of the Amory Street Public Housing campus in Jamaica Plain into 96 income-restricted units.
• $3.95 million to Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. and Traggorth Companies for the Stonley-Brookley Homeownership Development, which will create 45 units of income restricted homes with five units designated for artist live-work use.
• $4.5 million for Trinity Financial and Madison Park Neighborhood Development Corp.’s 2085 Washington St. development in Nubian Square. The final phase of the parcel 10 redevelopment will include 32 homeownership market rate units with 64 income restricted apartments. 
• $2.5 million to The NHP Foundation’s 60-unit apartments on the BPDA-owned Parcel 8 in Nubian Square.
• $2 million to Nuestra Comunidad for the  development of Bartlett Station D, including 44 apartments.
• $2.5 million to Windale Development for Unity Station condos, a 24-unit affordable homeownership project at Bartlett Station.
• $4.6 million for Urbanica’s 49-unit development of NUBA Homes on the BPDA-owned Parcel 8, along with NUBA Apartments.
• $1.1 million for Nubian Ascends Partners’ 15-unit artist housing unit on the Blair Lot in Nubian Square as part of a mixed-use project also including 135,000 square feet of office-lab space, a food market and culinary center, and arts and cultural space.

In allocating funds, the Mayor’s Office of Housing gave preference to projects where minority-owned businesses owned at least 20 percent of the project. Selection of projects receiving CPA funds is subject to approval by the Boston city council.

State Rep. Chynah Tyler, D-Boston, praised the Boston Community Preservation Committee’s allocation of funding, noting that the surcharge also can be used to pay for preservation of open space.

“In the past we’ve seen that be imbalanced and we’ve been concerned about the amount of affordability as far as housing is concerned,” Tyler said.

Boston District 8 City Councilor Kenzie Bok alluded to Wu’s proposed transfer tax on residential sales above $2 million and study of raising linkage fees on commercial developments as potential future sources of funding for affordable housing. This year’s round included $7 million in linkage fees paid to the Neighborhood Housing Trust.

“There is nothing more important to the makeup and opportunities of the city than who gets to live here,” Bok said.