Mission

Southwest Boston CDC works to sustain a thriving, economically diverse community in Hyde Park and Roslindale through a focus on affordable housing options, access to good jobs and transit, preservation of green spaces, and the development and empowerment of local leaders whose voices are not otherwise heard.

What We Do

Our current programs include the following:

-- Community Building and Community Organizing: We bring residents together to solve problems, improve neighborhoods, and gain greater control over their community's future.

We do this by supporting residents in identifying the issues they want to address, and helping them develop skills and implement the plans they create. In doing this, residents who otherwise feel (and are) shut out of decision making in their own neighborhood build their own powerful voice. Residents are now taking on issues of a blighted site that used to be a playground, the need to improve public transit, and the dire need for more affordable housing -- in order to ensure that Hyde Park's continues to be an affordable, beautiful, vibrant place for families.

-- Affordable Housing: We build and preserve affordable housing. In 2016 we purchased an 8-unit property in Roslindale to prevent the displacement of the low-income families living there. We are currently under construction for a 27-unit energy efficient, transit oriented rental development underway, steps from the Fairmount Station. Rents in Boston continue to skyrocket, and more developers are looking to Hyde Park and Roslindale to create "luxury" apartments. This building will transform a blighted lot and will be the first affordable family
development in Hyde Park in nearly 25 years.

-- Environmental stewardship: Our Hyde Park Green team employs teens and young adults from the neighborhood to preserve and restore the amazing urban wild sites in Hyde Park. We work with he Boston Parks Department to outline a scope of work in order to ensure these urban wilds are preserved for the community.

-- Transit Equity: As an active member of the Fairmount Indigo CDC Collaborative and the Fairmount Indigo Network, we help organize residents to fight for improvements to the Fairmount line that will have a positive impact on residents all along the line, such as making all stations along the line have the same low fare.