New Case Study Posted

March 03, 2016  

Boston, Massachusetts: Innovatively Preserving Affordable Housing

HUD User publishes a series of case studies based on federal, state, and local strategies that increase affordable housing opportunities and support sustainable community development. The projects and community development efforts featured in these reports have demonstrated innovation through a multitude of partnerships and initiatives.

Every year, thousands of affordable homes are lost through demolition, deterioration, and lapsing affordability controls, including many in high-opportunity neighborhoods. In Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood, an innovative approach to preservation has transformed the 213-unit, structurally deficient Charlesview Apartments into Charlesview Residences and Town Homes at Brighton Mills, a mixed-use, mixed-income development on a nearby site that increases the overall number of affordable units. A land exchange with Harvard University and the pioneering transfer of project-based vouchers from the old development to the new one made the project possible.

Visit HUD User's Case Studies page to learn more about affordable homeownership and to view other promising examples of how communities across the nation are raising the bar on sustainable community development.

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