The BPDA board approved six development projects in five neighborhoods, including an affordable senior housing project at 279-283 North Harvard St. in Allston and a nine-story, 70-unit apartment ...

In March, the Boston City Council voted to replace the BPDA in an 8-3 vote. The vote was contentious, with those in opposition arguing that it would spell trouble for current BPDA staffers.

“If you overlay Boston’s heat maps with maps of formerly redlined neighborhoods, it’s pretty striking, the overlap that’s there and the correlation that’s there,” said Isabella Gambill ...