Download or read book Housing in the Greater Boston Area written by Regina A. O'Grady-LeShane and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Housing Found written by Robert B. Whittlesey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South End Community Development Inc. was a new idea when Whittlesey accepted its directorship. He worked with the United South End Settlements staff on a successful proposal to rehabilitate South End houses in one of Bostons urban renewal areas. They received a grant from the US Federal Housing and Home Agencies for $205,000 matched with a contribution of $50,000 from the United South End Settlements and $75,000 from the Committee of the Permanent Charity Fund, now known as the Boston Foundation. This book tells the story of the completion of that Demonstration Program, of its transformation into a technical assistance corporation, and its expansion into the Greater Boston area. Convinced that financing was key for successful affordable housing ventures, Whittlesey accepted the directorship of the Boston Housing Partnership (BHP). BHP organized the projects, raised financing for them, and had local community development corporations own and operate them. BHP became a model for the nation. Conducting a national survey and identifying the presence of significant housing organizations around the country, Whittlesey then left BHP to head up the organization of a national association of housing partnerships, now known as the Housing Partnership Network (HPN). With a hundred members, by 2014, HPN had collectively developed and preserved over three hundred thousand units of affordable rental housing and built, rehabilitated, or financed sixty-three thousand single-family homes.
Download or read book Large lot Housing Construction in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Increasing Affordable Accessible Housing in the Greater Boston Area written by Olin G. Parker and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discrimination in Housing in the Boston Metropolitan Area written by United States Commission on Civil Rights. Massachusetts Advisory Committee and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Demography of Negro housing in Boston; patterns and practices of discrimination; private organizations and legislation working against discrimination; includes the annual report of Fair Housing, Inc., 1962/63 with statistics on disposition of applicants ...
Download or read book Economic Development in the Boston Area written by Joint Center for Urban Studies and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Housing Study 2 written by Harvard University. Graduate School of Design and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems in Multifamily Subsidized Housing in Boston written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A People s Guide to Greater Boston written by Joseph Nevins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Herein, we bring you to sites that have been central to the lives of 'the people' of Greater Boston over four centuries. You'll visit sites associated with the area's indigenous inhabitants and with the individuals and movements who sought to abolish slavery, to end war, challenge militarism, and bring about a more peaceful world, to achieve racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation, and to secure the rights of workers. We take you to some well-known sites, but more often to ones far off the well-beaten path of the Freedom Trail, to places in Boston's outlying neighborhoods. We also visit sites in numerous other municipalities that make up the Greater Boston region-from places such as Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. The sites to which we do 'travel' include homes given that people's struggles, activism, and organizing sometimes unfold, or are even birthed in many cases in living rooms and kitchens. Trying to capture a place as diverse and dynamic as Boston is highly challenging. (One could say that about any 'big' place.) We thus want to make clear that our goal is not to be comprehensive, or to 'do justice' to the region. Given the constraints of space and time as well as the limitations of knowledge--both our own and what is available in published form--there are many important sites, cities, and towns that we have not included. Thus, in exploring scores of sites across Boston and numerous municipalities, our modest goal is to paint a suggestive portrait of the greater urban area that highlights its long-contested nature. In many ways, we merely scratch the region's surface--or many surfaces--given the multiple layers that any one place embodies. In writing about Greater Boston as a place, we run the risk of suggesting that the city writ-large has some sort of essence. Indeed, the very notion of a particular place assumes intrinsic characteristics and an associated delimited space. After all, how can one distinguish one place from another if it has no uniqueness and is not geographically differentiated? Nonetheless, geographer Doreen Massey insists that we conceive of places as progressive, as flowing over the boundaries of any particular space, time, or society; in other words, we should see places as processual or ever-changing, as unbounded in that they shape and are shaped by other places and forces from without, and as having multiple identities. In exploring Greater Boston from many venues over 400 years, we embrace this approach. That said, we have to reconcile this with the need to delimit Greater Boston--for among other reasons, simply to be in a position to name it and thus distinguish it from elsewhere"--
Download or read book The Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2003 written by Bonnie Heudorfer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Housing Task Force written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston written by Edward Ludwig Glaeser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Missing Middle written by Luke Anthony Mich and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 75 years, the United States' housing stock has become increasingly bifurcated, with the overwhelming majority of units taking the form of single-family homes or mid- and high-rise apartments and condos. This trend has made scarce the kinds of low-rise, moderate-density typologies that had historically provided the dense, compact urbanism necessary to support transit, walkability, and neighborhood retail. Dubbed the "Missing Middle" by their advocates, these housing types - townhouses, duplexes, courtyard apartments, and the like - are championed for their potential to deliver the benefits of residential density in forms that are more compatible with the character of existing suburban neighborhoods than their larger multifamily counterparts. They are also promoted for their ability to improve affordability in hot housing markets through the incremental addition of smaller units and improved land use efficiency. This thesis seeks to explore the concept of the Missing Middle including the characteristics of its forms, the trends in its permitting and construction, and the barriers to its development. Focusing on Greater Boston, and three of its suburban towns in particular, the research draws on census data analysis and semi-structured interviews to understand the distribution of this housing in the region, the extent to which its development lives up to the claims of advocates, and the potential reasons for its decline. Results indicate that while Missing Middle units have historically been concentrated in cities in Greater Boston's urban core, some suburbs are experiencing an increased interest in their development. However, in many cases, recently constructed examples of the Missing Middle in suburban contexts do not achieve the walkability and affordability goals of its supporters. The research finds that barriers to the permitting of suburban Missing Middle units are largely regulatory in nature, stemming from density restrictions driven by fiscal zoning considerations and homeowners' opposition to growth, especially in wealthier communities. These findings point to the need for strong regional planning to work across town boundaries, loosening restrictive local zoning while developing adequate protections for neighborhood character in order to promote Missing Middle housing in the development of smart growth and affordability plans and policies.
Download or read book Quality Control written by Jeffrey Chian-Lee Wu and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impact of Historic Districts on Housing Prices in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area written by Jason J. Altieri and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governing Greater Boston written by Charles C. Euchner and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
