Councilor Flynn Opposes Removal of On-Site Affordable Housing at 776 Summer Street
BOSTON – Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn joined concerned South Boston neighbors in announcing his opposition to the removal of on-site affordable housing units at the 776 Summer Street development. Please note the comment period for Phase 2 of the 776 Summer Street development in South Boston ends next Thursday, February 20th. Councilor Flynn encourages residents to submit comments at https://www.bostonplans.org/
At the recent public meeting, Councilor Flynn’s office specifically expressed opposition to moving approximately 100 affordable housing units associated with the project off-site. Councilor Flynn has echoed the concerns of residents that he does not support a situation where a contribution to the city’s Inclusionary Development Policy (IDP) affordable housing fund could potentially result in approximately 100 affordable housing units sent outside of the impacted area and South Boston.
Moreover, in such a densely populated neighborhood in South Boston, there is only so much land that can sustain the scale of development that could support 100 affordable housing units, while projects of similar size and scale will already have their own IDP affordable housing requirements to meet.
“With our affordable housing crisis, I do not want to see a situation where this community benefit, and approximately 100 affordable units, are transferred outside of the impacted neighborhood of South Boston,” said Councilor Flynn. “Please spread the word to your family, friends and neighbors to submit their concerns to the Boston Planning Department by Thursday, February 20th.”
For more information, please contact Councilor Flynn’s office at 617-635-3203 or [email protected].
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….”Sure. We’ll make allowances for ‘affordable units’. We hear good things about…Chelsea.” (?)
Preposterous. And not just a little insulting. If I’m not mistaken, I believe the units at the end of Pappas Way, where E, First turns into W. First (or vice versa), were/are part of the redevelopment of the old Court Square Press building at Bway Station. (And not for nothing but I have it on good authority that the workmanship and/or materials used were/are incredibly sub-par…but I digress).
I didn’t like the concept then and I certainly don’t subscribe to it now.
It’s textbook gentrification. “We want to live here. We just don’t want to live ‘with’ you.”
The mere idea of it is repugnant.
…doubts the unmitigated disdain these developers have for “OUR” neighborhood and/or its residents, I offer the following (from a community meeting held in October of 2019):
“When asked where he was from, he said Massachusetts. The South Boston woman then asked, “So, where in Massachusetts?” and Mr. Chused responded “it doesn’t matter… I’m sorry. I wasn’t born in a bathtub in South Boston.”