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.

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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!

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POUA Accepts AHF Award for Cote Village

POUA's Director of Real Estate Shaina Korman-Houston and Caribbean Integration Community Development's (CICD's) President Donald Alexis were on hand in Chicago at the Affordable Housing Finance annual conference in November to accept the award for Best Family Housing for Cote Village in Mattapan. We are honored to accept this award, and to be amongst so many outstanding peers in the affordable housing realm!

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POUA Celebrates 50th Anniversary at Fundraiser Honoring Lisa Alberghini

At our 50th Anniversary Fundraiser September 21st, we were grateful to honor Lisa Alberghini for 18 years at the Planning Office, and for all of her work in the affordable and mixed-income housing world. We're incredibly thankful to everyone who supported us this year, and every year, as we raised $400,000 this year!

Click here to see more photos from the event and watch the video from the event thanking Lisa and celebrating the office's 50th anniversary here.

It is an honor for us to have the opportunity to work with amazing teammates, elected officials, community groups, funders, board members, and project team members, and it was wonderful getting to celebrate with everyone in person this year! (Photos by Andy Ryan).

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Cote Village Wins Best Family Housing!

We are thrilled to announce that our Mattapan development in partnership with Caribbean Integration Community Development, Cote Village, has been chosen as the family category winner in Affordable Housing Finance Magazine's 2022 National Readers’ Choice Awards! Thank you so much to everyone who voted!

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