Posted by Maria Caceres on June 1, 2018
Welcomes 20 new diverse non-profit organizations and distributes over $30.8M in funding across the region to effect lasting change The United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley today announced it will distribute $30.8 million in support of strategies, organizations, partnerships, and programs aimed at solving entrenched poverty and...
Posted by Maria Caceres on October 30, 2017
Boston-based developer Urban Edge Housing Corp. broke ground Friday on the Walker Park apartments, a 49-unit, $17.5 million affordable rental housing complex in Roxbury’s Egleston Square. Urban Edge is redeveloping three vacant parcels next to the Egleston Square Library into apartments restricted to households earning a maximum of 60 percent of the...
Posted by Maria Caceres on October 28, 2017
BOSTON – Saturday, October 28, 2017 – Mayor Martin J. Walsh today joined Urban Edge, elected officials and community leaders to celebrate the start of construction at the Walker Park Apartments, a $17.5 million affordable rental housing development that will create 49 new homes in Egleston Square. The City of Boston’s Department...
Posted by Maria Caceres on October 4, 2017
Urban Edge Housing Corp. is looking to transform a blighted Roxbury property into 42 affordable apartments for low-income households. The nonprofit Hub developer’s five-story building would be built at 41-51 Walnut Park in Egleston Square, according to a Boston Planning & Development Agency filing. The project is a critical piece of Urban Edge’s...
Posted by Maria Caceres on October 4, 2017
(Boston, Mass.) – Leaders from Honolulu, to Providence, R.I.—working across a range of fields, including social policy, community development, public health, and government—have been selected to participate in the Culture of Health Leaders program. These leaders will explore a diversity of pressing issues in health and equity, such as addressing...
