housing
HELP SAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING – TONIGHT!
HELP SAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING! Your neighbors need your help to save affordable housing in the Fenway! Our neighborhood faces the loss of nearly 10% of its affordable housing. The owners of Burbank Apartments want to opt out of federal subsidy programs and convert the 173 units to market rate at the end of March 2011. [...]
News Notes – January 21
NU among best for sustainability By Anne Steele, Huntington News Staff – 1/20/11 Northeastern was ranked the fourth-greenest campus in the world last month by the GreenMetric Ranking of World Universities, established by the University of Indonesia (UI). The school was among 95 universities worldwide and eight in the United States that were ranked Dec. [...]
Activists, Ross force partial BU retreat in audubon circle
by Laura Finaldi Boston University has reached an agreement to no longer house students on the south side of Beacon Street at Audubon Circle starting in the fall of 2011. City Council President Michael Ross said in a press release that representatives from BU agreed to move undergraduates out of nine of the eleven “small [...]
New Dorm Building Would Put a firm Berklee Stamp on Mass Ave Streetscape
by Stephen Brophy Berklee College of Music announced plans for a new building on Mass Ave at a November 29 meeting of the Berklee Task Force. The task force comprises Fenway/Back Bay residents, elected officials, and Berklee administrators assembled by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to work out details of the school’s institutional master plan. The [...]
News Notes – December 1
Berklee retunes plans for dorms By Thomas Grillo/Boston Herald – December 1, 2010 Berklee College of Music is moving ahead with plans for a 16-story, mixed-use building at 168 Massachusetts Ave. that would house a 350-student dorm, increasing the school’s on-campus housing capacity to 1,200. The school hopes to start construction on the $65 million, [...]
News Notes – November 18
Making it to Year 2 – Effort to help Boston graduates stay in college is showing early success By Akilah Johnson – Globe Staff / November 18, 2010 A fledgling program to stanch the flow of Boston public school students who make it to college but then drop out is showing early signs of success, [...]
News Notes – November 11 – Veterans Day
Boston Museum Grows by Casting a Wide Net By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI/NYT – November 10, 2010 ABOUT four years ago, at the suggestion of a mutual friend, Ronald C. Wornick paid a call on Malcolm A. Rogers, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, looking for a home for the contemporary decorative art [...]
Tenant Groups and Officials to Rally Saturday for Legislation to “Save Our Homes”
Who: Tenants from HUD subsidized apartments threatened with conversion to market rents, joined by invited elected officials and candidates What: Rally and press conference to call for state and federal legislation to save peoples’ homes When: Saturday, October 30, 11:30 a.m. (part of International Housing Rights Days of Action in October in [...]
News Notes – October 26
Turner is standing by his decision – Insists he’ll testify in corruption trial By Jonathan Saltzman – Globe Staff / October 26, 2010 Shortly after the government’s star witness predicted that Councilor Chuck Turner would be convicted of lying to the FBI, Turner renewed his vow to take the stand in his defense yesterday, saying [...]
News Notes – October 25
Gridlock fouling up Boylston & Mass. By Christina Pazzanese – Globe Correspondent / October 25, 2010 With so many drivers trying to navigate Boston’s narrow city streets every day, reader Robert Hegarty wants to know why the city doesn’t take a more assertive stance on warning against traffic gridlock. “My reason for writing deals with [...]
Print Edition: May 2012
