• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • NEWS+OPINIONS
    • NEWS TO US
    • COLUMNS
      • APPARENT HORIZON
      • DEAR READER
      • Close
    • LONGFORM FEATURES
    • OPINIONS
    • EDITORIAL
    • Close
  • ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
    • FILM
    • MUSIC
    • COMEDY
    • PERFORMING ARTS
    • VISUAL ARTS
    • Close
  • DINING+DRINKING
    • EATS
    • SIPS
    • BOSTON BETTER BEER BUREAU
    • Close
  • LIFESTYLE
    • CANNABIS
      • TALKING JOINTS MEMO
      • Close
    • WELLNESS
    • GTFO
    • Close
  • STUFF TO DO
  • TICKETS
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT
    • MASTHEAD
    • ADVERTISE
    • Close

Dig Bos

The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source

HUD

SPECIAL FEATURE ON THE PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING IN BOSTON

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted February 1, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

In the nationwide bipartisan blitz to privatize public housing, Boston’s giving billions worth of benefits to some of America’s largest developers, financiers, and property management firms. Politicians are applauding, but for many residents caught in the transition, their housing future is unclear

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, BPDA, City Hall, development, gentrification, Housing, HUD

THE FAIR MARKET RENT FOR A 1-BEDROOM IN BOSTON JUST JUMPED $400

Written by DIG STAFF Posted March 14, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

This as the federal government jacked the cost of an efficiency here from $1,253 to $1,608, while a two-bedroom spiked from $1,740 to $2,194, a three bedroom from $2,182 to $2,749, and a four-bedroom from $2,370 to $2,966.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: affordable housing, Boston, Cambridge, Fair Market Rent, Housing, HUD, Massachusetts, Quincy, Trump

DON’T MAKE US HOMELESS AGAIN: AN OPEN LETTER TO MAYOR WALSH

Written by DIG STAFF Posted June 6, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Since our first letter, the conditions we detailed (including lack of, or no food at meals; no access to beds or medication during the day; and lack of available case management staff) have only deteriorated daily.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston Public Health Commission, Homeless, homelessness, HUD, Long Island, mayor Marty Walsh, Project SOAR, Safe Harbor

SPECIAL HOUSING FEATURE: EIGHT ISN’T ENOUGH

Written by LAURA KIESEL Posted April 26, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

For people living on the margins in the cities, towns, and suburbs around Boston, the available housing subsidies are painfully inadequate—just like the public transportation and job opportunities

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: arlington, Ben Carson, Boston, Cambridge, Department of Urban Environmental Policy and Planning, Housing, HUD, Inclusive Communities Project, Section 8, SOMERVILLE, tufts, vouchers

COMMON ROOM: MASSIVE DORCHESTER CULINARY INCUBATOR FOCUSES ON JOB CREATION, WOMEN, AND MINORITIES

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted September 11, 2015 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

The proof in the non-profit job-creation pudding is more than ample.

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: alex's ugly sauce, boston public market, clover food lab, commissary, commonwealth kitchen, cropcircle kitchen, Dorchester, food trucks, HUD, incubator, Jamaica Plain, jennifer faigel, job creation, jubilee juice, mei mei street kitchen, minorities, non profit, noodle lab, pearl hot dog, red apple farms, roxy's grilled cheese, Tom Menino, veterans, Women

Primary Sidebar

LOCAL EVENTS

AAN Wire


Most Popular

  • AG Investigating BPD To Determine If “Gang Unit” Engages In “Unconstitutional Policing”
  • Over Yondr: Are Cell Phone Pouches At Shows Liberating, Dangerous, Or Annoying?
  • Deep Cuts Brings Sandwiches, Craft Beer, And Live Music To Medford
  • Daring Greatly: TikTok Star Alden McWayne (aka Gucci Pineapple) On Scheming And Dreaming
  • Dead As Ever: Meet The Rising Dark Star Of Boston’s Jam Band Scene

Footer

Social Buttons

DigBoston facebook DigBoston Twitter DigBoston Instagram

Masthead

About

Advertise

Customer Service

About Us

DigBoston is a one-stop nexus for everything worth doing or knowing in the Boston area. It's an alt-weekly, it's a website, it's an email blast, it's a twitter account, it's that cool party that you were at last night ... hey, you're reading it, so it's gotta be good. For advertising inquiries: sales@digboston.com To reach editorial (and for inquiries about internship opportunities): editorial@digboston.com