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Mayor Walsh announces $28 million for affordable housing projects all over Boston

Dorchester is one of the neighborhoods that will be getting more affordable housing. Wendy Maeda / The Boston Globe

March 22, 2016

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Mayor Marty Walsh plans to allocate $28 million in funding to create or preserve 837 affordable housing units, he announced Tuesday.

The funding comes through the Department of Neighborhood Development and Boston’s Neighborhood Housing Trust.

“We are committed to creating a Boston where everyone who wants to live here, can afford to,” Mayor Walsh said in a statement. “I thank our local, state and federal partners for these housing investments that create good jobs and fuel our economy.”

Projects will take place across six different neighborhoods and will encompass a wide range of needs.

Chinatown: 48 Boylston Street will be turned into 46 units of affordable housing, some of which will be set aside for the homeless population. And the 161-unit Quincy Towers will remain 100 percent affordable.

Dorchester: A total of 92 units will be repaired or renovated at several sites across Dorchester.

Jamaica Plain: A 47-unit development is planned on city-owned land and another 76-unit development is set to include 38 affordable units with four units set aside for the homeless. Both developments will be transit oriented.

Mattapan: A 76-unit mixed use development will be built on city-owned land and another 100-unit rental development will be built on the former Mattapan State Hospital site.

Roxbury: There will be 193 units created over three different new development projects.

South Boston: A 46-unit elderly housing development will be created.

In 2015, the City of Boston permitted more affordable housing than ever before in the city’s history, after the mayor announced a plan to add 53,000 new units in the middle- and low-income segments of the market by 2030.

In this year’s State of the City address, Mayor Walsh announced a new Office of Housing Stability, with the goal of keeping people in the homes they have now.