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The Boston Redevelopment Authority ("BRA") has made a commitment to create affordable homeownership and rental opportunities in the City of Boston with the intent of promoting public health, safety, convenience, welfare and to continue the expansion of the City's housing stock. The BRA aims to alleviate the impacts of market rate housing on the supply and costs of housing for low and moderate income households. Using public land and with the help of developers, financing assistance, and relief from regulation, housing is made affordable to all incomes, ages, and households by reducing the rent or purchase price to below market values, thus reducing monthly rent and mortgage payments and requiring lower down payments.

In order to maximize the benefit of the creation of affordable units, the BRA has implemented a series of preferences to ensure that these units are available to those who need them most. Those preferences, when they apply, include and are weighted in the following manner: households requiring accessible units (for fully built-out accessible units only); urban renewal displacee; Boston resident; minimum household size; and first-time homebuyer. Applicants must also meet the income criteria in order to be considered. Applicants will be given preference by the number and order of preference criteria that they meet. See link above for preference definitions and order.