On Monday, October 3, BBH celebrated the 2011 MetLife Foundation Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing to Covenant House and honored the partners that make it possible. The event began with the award presentation by Lisa Nye, of the MetLife Foundation and Katie Swenson, of Enterprise Community Partners. Remarks followed by Mayor Thomas Menino, Barbara…
B’nai B’rith Housing Receives National MetLife Foundation Award and Honors its Local Partners
We were thrilled that Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and HUD Regional Administrator Barbara Fields, along with many other officials and senior housing leaders, were able to join us on October 3rd to celebrate the national 2011 MetLife Foundation Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing to Covenant House! At the event BBHNE also honored over two…
B’nai B’rith Housing’s Coolidge at Sudbury Receives Permit
At a public hearing on August 8th the Sudbury Zoning Board of Appeals approved a comprehensive permit for B’nai B’rith Housing New England’s “The Coolidge at Sudbury” affordable senior rental housing proposal. On August 30th, the permit was certified. The Coolidge atSudbury, located at189 Boston Post Road, will provide 64 units of affordable senior rental…
B’nai B’rith Housing Wins ULI Award for Exceptional Workforce Housing
B’nai B’rith Housing New England will honor the City of Newton on Dec. 6, 2010, for its part in the successful creation of the mixed-income 33Comm housing development project, which today won the Urban Land Institute’s Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Models of Excellence Award. ULI announced inWashington,D.C., that the award to the Brighton-based affordable housing…
B’nai B’rith Housing Celebrates Green Grant
Come celebrate! BBHNE is holding an event on October 25th to celebrate the receipt of a major grant to green our Covenant House properties, making them more energy efficient and reducing our carbon footprint.