Boston's Most Ambitious Affordable Housing Initiative

A nonprofit religious group plans to build 1,000 affordable homes across the city.

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March 23, 2002, 10:00 AM PST

"The site would hold roughly 200 two-family homes, each with a purchase price of $200,000 - a now acceptable benchmark of affordability in one of America's costliest housing markets... The organization's effort, if successful, would rank as one the city's largest grass-roots initiatives, cobbled together by a coalition of ministers and rabbis using the most rudimentary fund-raising methods."

Thanks to Tom Collins

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Friday, March 22, 2002 in The Boston Globe

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