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Mayor Thomas M. Menino has announced that the Boston Housing Authority was recently awarded $33 million of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds through the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The funding has been appropriated for various projects across the city and will create nearly 700 Boston jobs starting with the redevelopment of the Washington Beech housing complex slated to begin at the end of March. Washington Beech represents one of the very first projects to start in the entire country due to ARRA funding.

“To be one of the first major cities in the country to actively utilize funding from ARRA on projects that will create almost 700 jobs is a major accomplishment,” Mayor Menino said. “We want President Obama to know that Boston is in prime position to help the country’s economic recovery by creating jobs immediately. Washington Beech is just the beginning; projects across the city are set to go.”

ARRA represents the federal government’s most sweeping economic package in decades and much of the funding is directed toward priorities that Mayor Menino has long championed, including modernizing public housing, investing in neighborhood development, supporting youth opportunities in education and summer jobs, strengthening public safety, and advancing renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives.

“The projects and programs that will be implemented by ARRA funding will create jobs, jumpstart our economy and help achieve the goals of the President’s Recovery plan,” said Jake Sullivan, Mayor Menino’s Federal Relations Officer and director of the City’s Economic Recovery Team. “These investments are at the heart of the priorities about which the Mayor has been so passionate throughout his time in office.”

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