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The lawsuit will contend that the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s approval of the project was flawed.

Charlestown residents are demanding the BPDA to rescind approval of an affordable housing project at the Navy Yard because the group says officials ignored its concerns over potential “significant adverse impacts” to the neighborhood.

Charlestown residents are suing Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the city’s urban planning agency to halt the building of affordable housing.

The project would turn a shuttered hotel into affordable housing, much of it for homeless women and veterans.

Read about the impacts of the region's housing crisis, from the struggles of first-time homebuyers to the state of the rental market.

The Archdiocese of Boston and its partner St. Francis House on Wednesday formally notified the BPDA about their plan to convert the shuttered Constitution Inn into much-needed low-income housing, including some for formerly homeless people.

The nonprofit has hired a real estate firm to study the development potential of its sites in Boston and several nearby suburbs.

If approved, the 900 Morrissey Blvd. property would host 99 studio rental units for people emerging from homelessness, the latest in a series of hotel-to-housing conversions that have angered some residents.

By Max Larkin, WBUR Reporter December 10, 2020 Max Larkin, WBUR Reporter Josh Knight commutes on the Orange Line — and a bus and shuttle — to the Charlestown YMCA. Jesse Costa/WBUR photo For a few days each week, Josh Knight goes to class on the subway. He has to: He’s on his way to work at the Charlestown YMCA. But he’s also a first-year student in the honors program at Framingham State University, which means that even as he boards an Orange Line car bound for North Station, he might...