393 new housing units, 268 of which (68%) have affordability restrictions
$1.2 million in contributions to the city's Jill Duson affordable housing trust fund
The city's housing dashboard shows a total of 446 homes approved last year – the higher number includes a few dozen from smaller 1-4 unit buildings approved last year outside the major site plan process.
2024 was the 5th-biggest year for housing approvals in the past half-century – not bad for a year with higher construction costs and high interest rates.
It was also the 2nd-biggest year for the number of new housing units completed (568), led by the opening of 201 Federal plus the two new buildings that opened up on Winter Street as part of the Mercy Hospital redevelopment. That works out to roughly a 1.6 percent increase in the city's total stock of non-seasonal housing.
