CBS 4 reports on funding for new affordable housing in Boston.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced millions of dollars in funding for affordable housing in the city Friday. The money will be used to create hundreds of affordable housing units across the city.
The $65 million in affordable housing funds comes from the Department of Neighborhood Development, the Neighborhood Housing Trust and the Community Preservation Fund.
“Eleven hundred units of housing will be built,” Walsh said. “It’s the largest in the history of the city at one time.”
This number includes 936 new unites that will be built, and 161 others that will be preserved.
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