POUA’s Steven P. Odom Serenity Garden Receives CPA Funds

Our Steven P. Odom Serenity Garden at Morton Station Village in Mattapan was recently awarded funds from the City of Boston through the Community Preservation Act! Read more about this, and other projects who received funding, here.

POUA’s Steven P. Odom Serenity Garden Receives CPA Funds - FULL STORY

Site Visit with Project Destined Students

We were thankful to spend time walking college students from Project Destined and Housing Partnership Network's Affordable Housing Bridge Program through two of our development sites in April - the recently completed Cote Village, and the currently in-construction Morton Station Village, both in Mattapan. POUA is so grateful to be a sponsor for students in this amazing program, and to have the opportunity to introduce students to affordable housing and our work at such an early stage!

Site Visit with Project Destined Students - FULL STORY

Morton Station Village & CommonWealth Builder Program

Check out MassHousing's video on our Morton Station Village development in Mattapan --  a new rental and homeownership development, in partnership with Caribbean Integration Community Development, that received funding through the CommonWealth Builder Program, which helps create affordable homeownership options in communities of color. 

Morton Station Village & CommonWealth Builder Program - FULL STORY

POUA and Fenway CDC Move Forward to Preserve Our Lady’s Guild House

The Planning Office for Urban Affairs and Fenway Community Development Corporation (Fenway CDC), have signed an option agreement with Our Lady’s Guild House (OLGH), a long-time residential property for women located at 20 Charlesgate West, to purchase the property and preserve the building for permanent affordable housing in the Fenway neighborhood. The decision of the current owners, Our Lady’s Guild House, Inc., to sell the property provides an opportunity for Fenway CDC and the Planning Office to work with the City of Boston to preserve affordable homes in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston.  
 

With the support of the City’s Mayor’s Office of Housing, the Planning Office and Fenway CDC plan to redevelop the property as 100% permanent affordable housing and have committed to preserving the tenancies of long-term residents. They also plan to invest significantly in rehabilitating and renovating the OLGH property to create housing that is welcoming, inclusive, universally accessible, energy-efficient, supportive of healthy living, and rich in shared amenity spaces for residents. Read more here.

POUA and Fenway CDC Move Forward to Preserve Our Lady’s Guild House - FULL STORY

Morton Station Village Construction Update

Our Morton Station Village project in Mattapan, in partnership with Caribbean Integration Community Development (CICD), reaches its halfway-through construction point. Morton Station Village will create 40 units of mixed-income, mixed-tenure housing on a long-vacant site across from the Morton Station train stop, along with green space which will include the Steven P. Odom serenity garden; this includes 28 rental apartments and 12 affordable homeownership units serving residents with income ranges from 30% Area Median Income (AMI) to 100% AMI. We expect to begin marketing units in Spring 2023, and look forward to welcoming residents later this year!

Morton Station Village Construction Update - FULL STORY