On Saturday, February 20, Boston residents, along with City Life/Vida Urbana and the Boston Tenant Coalition, gathered outside the site of the proposed Pine St. Inn affordable housing project at 3368 Washington St. for a rally to support affordable housing in the neighborhood.
A simultaneous virtual rally was held via Zoom, and participants both in person and virtually took turns saying why they believe affordable housing is important.
The rally was in support of 202 units of affordable housing 140 for people coming out of homelessness and 62 for low and moderate income families at 3368 Washington St., proposed by Pine Street Inn and the Community Builders, which has a lawsuit brought against it by the owner of 3377 Washington St., Monty Gold. 3377 Washington is the home of Turtle Swamp Brewing.
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The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC) Zoning Committee met virtually on February 3, and heard two items that brought many residents to the meeting to speak on the issues. The first was a proposal for the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC) and New Atlantic Development to build a new five-story mixed-use building with 39 units of senior housing along with commercial space at 3371-3375 Washington St.
The second agenda item was a proposal at 3326-3328 Washington St. for the construction of a new residential building with 43 residential units.
3371-3375 WASHINGTON ST.
The senior housing project at 3371-3375 Washington St. has been presented to the community several times before, and Sam Montano of the JPNDC explained that the organization became involved in the project in 2017 to help save El Embajador restaurant.