Mayor announces ambitious goals in State of the City address
Mayor Michelle Wu announced plans to create a new planning department that would be separate from the Boston Planning and Development Agency, streamline the city’s development processes and use the bulk of the city’s share of federal recovery funds to accelerate the production of affordable housing as part of a set of ambitious goals outlined in her Jan. 25 State of the City address.
Wu also outlined plans to accelerate the construction of new schools and announced an increase in funding for the education of students with special needs, as well as a move toward fossil-free municipal buildings and an end to the use of fossil fuel in the city’s public housing stock.
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