The Mattapan Community Development Corporation will host a ribbon cutting for one of its rehabilitated homes at 327 Wood Ave in Mattapan on Wednesday, October 13 at noon. The renovation project is the first step in a strategy dubbed the Mattapan Housing Stabilization Initiative—a collaboration between the Mattapan CDC and the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation.

“We are going to take back Mattapan,” said Mattapan CDC director Spencer DeShields. “We are going to take those houses that are blighted, that are areas of [criminal activity,] clear all those things out and get families back in these buildings.”  Read more