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At 3 Melville Ave., Kava Realty’s Johnny Ho has succeeded in completing a masterpiece of renovation and new construction in replacing a crumbling structure that was a blight on one of Dorchester’s premier thoroughfares. But all the work comes with a financial asterisk. The property at 3 Melville Ave., once a nursing home, was left vacant for years after the home’s operators
Haitian migrants landing in Massachusetts are waiting months to years for documentation that will allow them to work in the U.S. Meanwhile, worker shortages continue to plague industries from construction to school transportation. Seth Daniel, news editor for the Dorchester Reporter, joins The Common to discuss how this backlog is impacting Haitian immigrants locally and the Boston community at large.
On an ancient hill in Dorchester, all signs pointed to the future Monday when city officials broke ground on what is only Boston’s second new fire station in 40 years. The new Meetinghouse Hill Fire Station got underway late last year with construction crews blasting away at solid ledge rock for several weeks. Work is now underway on the station’s foundation. With that
Nearly every day, scores of Haitian men and women, some of whom walked thousands of miles to seek asylum in the United States, make their way to a modest office in Mattapan Square, the headquarters of the nonprofit Immigrant Family and Service Institute (IFSI). The migrants, who have been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by the US government, are looking for help
Today’s front-page report by Seth Daniel on the plight facing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Haitian refugees now living in the Boston area should compel elected leaders and policy makers to find a solution to an increasingly urgent problem in Boston and across the country. In December, the Biden administration announced that it would extend its existing Temporary Protected