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...inadequate, and forced the developer to propose an economically segregated plan, with low-income tenants clustered on one side of Western Ave., while luxury condos rise to ten stories above the river on the other side. This division by income, a model long abandoned by policy experts and urban planners at Harvard and beyond, is a formula for a failed community...
...actually calling for considerably expanded affordable housing options, in addition to the market-rate units, so that homeowners and tenants of all income groups can be interspersed. Rather than reproduce the stigmas of an older approach to public housing, this plan can help Harvard create a model urban community in Allston/Brighton, just down the street from its gleaming new campus...
...Sept. 23, the foundation minted 25 new Fellows, who were each awarded $500,000 grants doled out over five years, with no strings attached or reporting obligations. The recipients include stage lighting designer Jennifer Tipton, geriatrician Diane Meier and urban farmer Will Allen. This diversity is a hallmark of the program, which, according to the foundation's president, Jonathan Fanton, strives to bestow financial freedom - and the considerable prestige that accompanies the award - to creative individuals on the cusp of greatness. "These are people at the very edge of discovery, people who are redefining what's possible," says Fanton. "They...
...program, a branch of TPL. “This is a means to begin to promote parks and open spaces in cities.” Friday’s “park,” arranged in collaboration with Livable Streets Alliance, an organization that works to rethink urban transportation in Boston, was the first of its kind in Boston. Seventy other cities also participated in the event nationwide. Boston’s park was set up at 8 a.m. by 12 volunteers, including George Zisiadis ’11, who filmed the park as part of his project...
According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as many as 13,000 Section 8 contracts will expire by 2013, meaning 800,000 privately owned buildings could potentially be put up for sale or have the rents on their apartments raised to full market rates. Michael Bodaken, executive director of the National Housing Trust says about 1.5 million apartments housing between three and five million people will be affected. "Generally it's bad for cities to the extent that they lose the needed mixed income and affordable housing resource that is difficult to replace," says Bodaken, whose non-profit...