The program’s goal is to create more downtown housing and bring more foot traffic to support downtown businesses.

A new project will bring 41 new housing units to East Boston’s Orient Heights Square. 

Construction is set to begin on the development of a city-owned property on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester.

Habitat for Humanity will redevelop property on Walter Street in Roslindale into affordable housing. 

The Archdiocese of Boston and St. Francis House filed a letter of intent with the Boston Planning & Development Agency expressing their desire to convert the property.

The Boston Planning & Development Agency has approved plans to develop the former New England Casket Co. site in Easton Boston into residential housing and retail space.

The second residential building in the Ashlar Park residential community is now complete and preleasing units for September occupancy. 

The Charlestown development is the largest public housing redevelopment in the city’s history.

The Tufts Center for State Policy Analysis study found housing is not being funded nearly as much as open space, recreation and historic preservation.

Holland Properties is looking to rehab the existing Franciscan Poor Clare Nuns’ monastery at 920 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain into a mixed-use development.

Two new developments, approved by the Boston Planning & Development Agency at its May meeting, will bring more than 180 new residences to Dorchester and Jamaica Plain.

Phase six includes the development of a five-story building which will be entirely income-restricted.

Once complete, the five-story building will contain 124 units, 21 of which will be income-restricted.

The projects are located at 1234-1240 Soldiers Field Road, 119 Braintree St. and 52 Everett St.

The Boston Planning & Development Agency approved the project which will bring 269 residential units to the site of the former Boston State Hospital property on Harvard Street in Mattapan.

The projects are located at 176 Lincoln St. and 1035 Commonwealth Ave.