The announcement concerns preserving existing homes at Fairmount, a development built in 1951 with more than 200 state public-housing apartments. It is not an announcement that 200 new homes have opened or that a new resident application window has begun.
Mayor Michelle Wu, BHA Administrator Kenzie Bok, state Housing Secretary Juana Matias, Representative Rob Consalvo and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joined residents for the announcement. The city credits Pressley and Senators Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren with securing the federal community-project funding.
The first phase is intended to improve apartment interiors, provide fully accessible layouts in 5% of apartments, replace heating and hot-water equipment with electric systems, and add cooling. Building-exterior work and stormwater improvements are also planned. The release does not give an apartment-by-apartment schedule or a completion date, so those remain matters for BHA’s planning process.
Outdoor work includes a community garden and rain gardens. Boston’s PowerCorps program is to train local people to install and maintain the rain gardens while earning environmental-career credentials. The announcement does not itself open a PowerCorps recruitment round or provide application instructions. Residents should distinguish this funding and planning milestone from later construction, access and employment notices.