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Contact: Lydia Agro Communications Director
Location: 52 Chauncy St., 11th Floor
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BHA awards Section 8 vouchers to create affordability in existing housing |
Boston-- The Boston Housing Authority (BHA) is pleased to announce the award of 184 Project-Based Section 8 Vouchers that will be used to create affordability in existing housing throughout the Boston area. BHA will pay subsidy to the awardees for a set number of apartments in the chosen developments, allowing the tenants of those units to pay 30 percent of their income toward rent. Vacant apartments will be filled by applicants on the BHA’s waiting list.
“The BHA is pleased to be able to help another 184 households achieve housing they can afford,” said BHA Administrator Sandra B. Henriquez. “This award is going to community organizations that provide housing to persons in need throughout the City of Boston.”
Priority was given to projects that serve homeless and/or very low-income persons or could demonstrate that existing tenants were severely rent-burdened. Organizations were chosen by a Request for Proposals process in conjuction with the City of Boston- Department of Neighborhood Development. The following organizations have been awarded the vouchers by the BHA:
· Pine Street Inn for 11 apartments in the downtown Boston and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods
· Urban Edge for 9 apartments in the Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods
· Caritas Communities, Inc. for 3 apartments in the Roxbury neighborhood
· Nazing Court Apartments for 15 apartments in the Dorchester neighborhood
· Commonwealth Land Trust for 26 apartments in the Lower Roxbury neighborhood
· Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation for 10 apartments in the Allston/Brighton neighborhood
· Asian Community Development Corporation for 16 apartments in the downtown Boston/Chinatown neighborhood
· Friends of the Shattuck Shelter for 9 apartments in the Dorchester neighborhood
· Fenway Community Development Corporation for 11 apartments in the Fenway neighborhood
· YWCA for 40 apartments in the South End neighborhood
· Episcopal City Mission for 21 apartments in the Fenway neighborhood
· HEARTH for 13 apartments in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood
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