Boston agency OKs affordable housing, school projects

BOSTON – Plans to create 95 affordable housing units won approval Thursday from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, along with an expansion of Dorchester's Epiphany School, a 127-room hotel in East Boston and a new Harvard Business School auditorium in Allston. In the city's Chinatown area, two nonprofit groups received the planning agency's permission to transform the historic Boston Young Men's Christian Union building on Boylston Street near Tremont Street into 46 all-affordable housing unit

BOSTON – Plans to create 95 affordable housing units won approval Thursday from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, along with an expansion of Dorchester's Epiphany School, a 127-room hotel in East Boston and a new Harvard Business School auditorium in Allston. In the city's Chinatown area, two nonprofit groups received the planning agency's permission to transform the historic Boston Young Men's Christian Union building on Boylston Street near Tremont Street into 46 all-affordable housing unit…