Apartment building for recently homeless on Wales Street rejected over parking issues
Rendering of proposed, rejected Wales Street building. The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday rejected a proposal by the non-profit Heading Home to replace a crumbling 10-unit apartment building at 37 Wales St. in Dorchester with 23 new apartments rented to families trying to get out of homelessness. Heading Home had proposed a building with no parking spaces for residents; the current building has ten. "Most clients don't have cars," Heading Home CEO Danielle Ferrier told the board. Residents would be "transitioning out of homelessness" and allowed to earn no more than 30% of the Boston-area ...
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