The small cluster of cabins providing supportive housing at the state’s Shattuck Hospital campus could blossom into hundreds of units for families and individuals under a redevelopment proposal from Boston Medical Center.
Boston Medical Center is planning a new 14-story research building on its South End campus to support its health equity program’s goal that patients are well represented in clinical studies.
A dynamic real estate market and public health crisis have collided in Boston’s Newmarket industrial neighborhood in recent years. Amid complaints about crime and drug paraphernalia, business owners are proposing the creation of Boston’s third business improvement district.
Dozens of medical experts and organizations, including some of the largest names in the state’s health care landscape, urged Beacon Hill power players to revive a stalled proposal that would ensure tenants facing eviction have legal representation.
A vacant former hospital building on the Boston Medical Center campus has been converted into a temporary quarantine shelter containing 304 non-acute beds for the homeless in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new, multimillion-dollar initiative from three major city hospitals that sees affordable housing and eviction as public health issues has the potential to radically change Massachusetts’ housing conversation for the better. The commercial housing industry should get involved to make sure it has a seat at the table.
Three major Boston hospitals announced a $3 million partnership Wednesday aimed at increasing housing stability among Greater Boston’s renters and urged the commercial housing industry to join their efforts.
Massachusetts construction companies and labor unions held work stoppages at 50 project sites from Boston to Springfield on Wednesday as their industry attempts to confront a high rate of fatal opioid overdoses among its ranks.
Affordable housing is the next big frontier in health care, and community development practitioners are catalyzing the growing discussion on social determinants of health, defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “conditions in the places where people live, learn, work and
