🏘️ A controversial affordable housing project in Hyde Park received final city approval despite neighborhood opposition.
The Crane Ledge Woods project will bring 201 income-restricted units to a city-owned parcel near the Stony Brook Reservation.
Conservationists and neighbors had pushed to preserve the site's open space and forest.
Mayor Michelle Wu defended the project as critical to Boston's housing affordability goals.
🏫 Harvard's real estate empire in Allston has been a political target for years, well before the Trump administration got involved in the university's tax-exempt status.
Harvard owns around 100 acres of land in Allston across the river from its Cambridge campus, much of it used for commercial purposes like lab and office space.
Some parcels offer payments in lieu of taxes, but critics have argued Harvard should pay full taxes like private developers.
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