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Mayor Menino Cuts Ribbon at Mission Hill’s Doe House
On May 3, Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) director, Evelyn Friedman, celebrated the opening of the Pine Street Inn’s Doe House, a new permanent supportive housing site at 18 – 20 Parker Hill Avenue in Mission Hill that will provide new rental units for 19 formerly homeless men and women. The refurbished triple-decker has been made possible, in part, by a more than half-million dollar donation from Charlie Doe, a Pine Street Inn benefactor and founder of the Ninety Nine Restaurant chain. Read more here...
Fighting Foreclosure
Boston’s anti-foreclosure campaign currently has two primary elements: 1) Foreclosure Prevention: helping homeowners make good financial decisions to prevent them from ever getting into foreclosure trouble, and 2) Foreclosure Intervention: helping homeowners that find themselves in foreclosure trouble keep their homes. A third element, Foreclosure Remediation that addresses the problems such as tenant security and neighborhood disinvestment that are the result of a rising inventory of foreclosed properties is now being developed.
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Affordable Housing
DND provides great opportunities for first-time homebuyers to purchase a new, rehabilitated or resale single or two-family home or condominium.
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DND Greens Its Housing Program
In January of 2007, Mayor Menino made Boston the first major city in the nation to require adherence to the US Green Building Council?s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certified standard as part of the private development review process. Since then, in an effort to promote energy efficiency, green building techniques, and healthy homes strategies throughout Boston's neighborhoods, DND has adopted new design standards which require developers to adhere to a level of LEED Silver.Read More » |
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Boston Main Streets
Boston Main Streets is a public-private initiative established by the City of Boston in 1995 to revitalize neighborhood commercial districts through local organizations. Main Streets is a comprehensive approach to providing merchant groups and community residents with the tools and information necessary for their commercial centers to compete in today's marketplace.
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