We were so excited to join Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, Ed Augustus Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, for an their announcement of nearly $20 million of state funding for the planned redevelopment of Faneuil Gardens in Brighton. This incredible investment will help us move forward with Phase 1, which will replace 81 State Public Housing Units in the community with modernized units and add an additional 33 affordable apartments, for a total of 114 homes. This funding gives us momentum towards our plan, in partnership with The Community Builders, Inc., to preserve all 258 units of deeply affordable housing and create 187 new and desperately needed additional units at Faneuil. Special thanks to House Majority Leader Michael Moran for being such a huge advocate for this community and this project. It was a great day for the residents and a great day for Brighton!
Boston Housing Authority
Government Administration
Boston, Massachusetts 1,679 followers
Boston Housing Authority provides affordable housing to more than 58,000 residents in and around the City of Boston
About us
Boston Housing Authority (BHA) provides affordable housing to more than 58,000 residents in and around the City of Boston. Residents are assisted through a combination of public housing and federal and state voucher subsidy programs that provide a wide variety of housing opportunities. As the largest public housing authority in New England, the BHA houses close to 9 percent of the city's residents. Our mission is to provide stable, quality affordable housing for low and moderate income persons; to deliver these services with integrity and mutual accountability; and to create living environments which serve as catalysts for the transformation from dependency to economic self-sufficiency. In total, BHA currently owns and/or oversees approximately 12,623 rental units of public housing in Boston and houses more than 25,000 people under the public housing program. BHA owns 63 housing developments. Of the 63 developments, 36 are designated as elderly/disabled developments and 27 are designated as family developments. Three of the 27 family developments have elderly/disabled housing on site and one of the elderly developments has designated units for families. In addition to housing developments, BHA administers approximately 11,469 rental assistance vouchers, otherwise known as Tenant-Based Section 8 vouchers, that allow families to rent in the private market and apply a subsidy to their rent. A similar state program assists an additional 700 households. With this assistance, residents are able to pay approximately 30-40 percent of their income toward rent and BHA pays the remainder. BHA helps provide housing to approximately 29,000 people under these programs. In addition, BHA provides subsidy to more than 2,100 households under its Section 8 Project-Based Voucher and Moderate Rehabilitation programs as well.
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https://www.bostonhousing.org/
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- Government Administration
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- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Boston, Massachusetts
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- Government Agency
- Founded
- 1935
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52 Chauncy St
Boston, Massachusetts 02111, US
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We are excited to announce that we have started construction on the modernization of St. Botolph Apartments in Back Bay! This project promises to have a transformational impact on the lives of our residents, who will enjoy new appliances, upgraded kitchens and bathrooms and a new modern heat pump system that will offer air conditioning to St. Botolph residents for the first time. We’ll also be improving common areas, improving our energy efficiency, decarbonizing our hot water systems with the help of solar thermal energy, and upgrading the building envelope. This project advances the health and wellbeing of our residents and advances our climate goals as we work to decarbonize public housing by 2030. This will be the first project in BHA’s Generations program, which is an initiative to fully upgrade all 3,000+ elderly-disabled public housing units in the BHA portfolio while maintaining public ownership. This project was designed by BWA Architecture and will be built by Shawmut Design & Construction, with critical funding and financing support from the City of Boston, MassHousing and the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust. We are so grateful to work with such outstanding partners on a project with substantial implications for Boston’s affordable housing landscape.
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The Boston Housing Authority (“BHA”) in collaboration with the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (“MOAC”) is seeking a qualified real estate developer (“Developer”/“Co-Developer”) to partner with BHA in a joint venture or otherwise serve as co-developer with BHA in the mixed-use redevelopment of the parcel located at 290 North Beacon Street in the Brighton Neighborhood of Boston (the “Site”) into affordable housing, music rehearsal space and other arts-and-culture space. Proposers responding to this Proposers responding to this RFP shall submit one original and four (4) copies of their proposal no later than 2:00 pm on Monday, May 12th, 2025. For more information click here: https://lnkd.in/gnevq6NB
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The Boston Housing Authority (BHA or Authority) is seeking services of a qualified firm headed by a landscape architect (Designer or Consultant) to provide design and construction administration services for the construction of site improvements at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Elderly Development located in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts. The Estimated Project Construction Cost (EPCC) is $750,000 which includes a construction contingency. The Boston Housing Authority will fund this work from a Community Preservation Act (CPA) grant. The proposal must be submitted by April 7th, 2025 at 2:00 PM. More details are available at the link. https://lnkd.in/eQnfsQRK
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The Boston Housing Authority is looking for a qualified architectural/engineering consultant firm (“A/E”) headed by an Architect to provide design and construction administration services for the comprehensive modernization of BHA’s General Warren Apartments. The proposal must be submitted by March 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM. More details are available at the link. https://lnkd.in/edyX7SQ3
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