Officials with the nonprofit day shelter St. Francis House and the Planning Office for Urban Affairs — the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston’s nonprofit housing developer — broke ground Tuesday on a 19-story affordable housing development. The downtown Boston complex will include 126 units, 70 of them reserved for people transitioning out of homelessness.
“Amidst all the luxury housing being built in downtown Boston, they too can find an affordable home,” said Karen LaFrazia, St. Francis House CEO.
The development, which will cost about $675,000 per unit to build, will bring together a mix of incomes and backgrounds, LaFrazia said at the groundbreaking ceremony…