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On Saturday, February 20, Boston residents, along with City Life/Vida Urbana and the Boston Tenant Coalition, gathered outside the site of the proposed Pine St. Inn affordable housing project at 3368 Washington St. for a rally to support affordable housing in the neighborhood.
A simultaneous virtual rally was held via Zoom, and participants both in person and virtually took turns saying why they believe affordable housing is important.
The rally was in support of 202 units of affordable housing 140 for people coming out of homelessness and 62 for low and moderate income families at 3368 Washington St., proposed by Pine Street Inn and the Community Builders, which has a lawsuit brought against it by the owner of 3377 Washington St., Monty Gold. 3377 Washington is the home of Turtle Swamp Brewing.
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The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a proposal by the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. for a 39-unit apartment building for senior citizens at 3371 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain, next to Turtle Swamp Brewing.
All of the units would have one bedroom and would be rented to seniors making no more than 60% of the Boston area median income - with a third of the units rented to people making no more than 30% of that level. The building would have a live-in manager. There would be no parking, but the city would convert three on-street parking spaces on Washington Street for short-term parking, such as for drop offs and pickups.
COVID taking toll on providers ability to help the homeless
Eileen Qiu
BOSTON Wintertime usually signals the holiday season filled with gifts, laughter and joy against a snowy background, but for over the 18,000 homeless people in Massachusetts, winter is a time of struggling to survive with new challenges brought by the pandemic.
Data from the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless states there were around 3,000 families in the Massachusetts Emergency Assistance Shelter program in 2020.
Shelters around the greater Boston area are trying their best to keep up with the demand for a safe and warm place.
Michael Cochran is the director of the Cambridge Warming Center. First opened in April, the center serves around 30 people a day, about half of what the space used to hold before COVID, Cochran said. The beds are first-come, first-served, but they’ll do their best to accommodate all visitors and collaborate with other shelters around the area to find people space. Guests hav