A state contractor plans to transform a vacant West Roxbury nursing home into housing for homeless families. The neighborhood is split.
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A controversial housing site for homeless families is coming to West Roxbury “one way or another,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said recently, weighing in on community opposition days before the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals upheld the project’s permit.
“I hear the frustration in the community,” Wu said on GBH’s “Boston Public Radio” last week, adding, “The city is not in the role to decide whether this project moves forward or not. This is a state project that they did not consult the city on and did not consult the community on.”…