09.17.2020

In Boston Real Estate Times: NEI General Contracting Completes Whittier Choice Neighborhood Phase 1A

The Whittier Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) is a collaboration between POAH, Madison Park Development Corporation, and the Boston Housing Authority to redevelop the Whittier Street Apartments site in Roxbury. When complete, the site will be fully redeveloped with over 350 units of mixed-income housing and commercial space. In addition to housing and safer streets, part of the vision is to promote family self-sufficiency by providing better access to quality education and job opportunities while using the community’s strengths to preserve its character.

09.13.2020

On Universal Hub: Roxbury gets a drive-in theater for the next month

The Nubian Summer Drive-In, which officially launches tonight, will show movies through October on a 40-foot-screen at the former Bartlett Yard bus yard at 2565 Washington St.

08.21.2020

MPDC Storytelling Series: Amenyonah Bossman, Bossman Construction Management

Amenyonah Bossman, a recipient of MPDC’s MWBE Relief Fund (made possible through our partnership with Life Science Cares), shares her story about managing Bossman Construction during COVID-19. Learn more about the Relief Fund and how you can contribute here.

07.20.2020

In the Boston Globe: For affordable rental housing in Allston-Brighton, a waiting list of 17,000

Amid a housing crunch and a rental market upended by COVID-19, lengthy queues for affordable housing continue in Boston, with one organization that owns 500 residential units in Allston and Brighton seeing its waitlist top an eye-popping 17,000.

More than half of the units owned by the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation have rental subsidies and on average the income for its households would be considered “the low-end of low income,” said John Woods, the organization’s executive director.

Woods recently confirmed the wait-list queue, and said that natural turnover that occurs with market-rate housing doesn’t happen with the type of housing his organization offers, which is the major driving factor for the length of the list.