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Boston Housing Authority (BHA) provides affordable housing to more than 58,000 residents in and around the City of Boston.

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Mayor Wu, Boston Housing Authority celebrate major upgrades to historic Lenox apartments in South End and Roxbury

Renovations including new kitchens, bathrooms, in-unit washers and dryers, and a transformed community building, mark the most significant upgrades to the Lenox Apartments since first constructed in 1939 as first public housing in Boston designated to housing Black residents

BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY

Boston Housing Authority (BHA) provides affordable housing to more than 58,000 residents in and around the City of Boston. Residents are assisted through a combination of public housing and federal and state voucher subsidy programs that provide a wide variety of housing opportunities. As the largest public housing authority in New England, the BHA houses close to 9 percent of the city's residents.

Our mission is to provide stable, quality affordable housing for low and moderate income persons; to deliver these services with integrity and mutual accountability; and to create living environments which serve as catalysts for the transformation from dependency to economic self-sufficiency.

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