Purchasing a triple-decker is expensive, but imagine if you could pool your collective purchasing power with another family? Mayor Michelle Wu announced the launch of the Co-Purchasing Housing Pilot ...

A 10th anniversary is sometimes called the tin anniversary, so hopefully someone will be playing a tin instrument while JP Porchfest celebrates 10 years on August 16. The party actually starts the day ...

Unlike an affordable housing lottery which has a deadline, there are four new income-restricted Jamaica Plain studios available that will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. Boston.gov lays ...

Get your preservative-free delicious When Pigs Fly bread while you can at its Jamaica Plain store because it’s closing ...

Fresh News for the Neighborhood You LoveAbout JP News Jamaica Plain News is an independent online news source and community platform for the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. David ...

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The newly-reopened Flaherty Playground is one small step for Chihuhuas, and one giant step for German shepherds — as it ...

Julia Mejia has lived in Boston for several decades. Those decades of living in Boston has taught her about all of Boston’s neighborhoods, not just Dorchester, where she currently resides. But Mejia’s ...

The Jamaica Plain Film Festival is presented by the Loring Greenough House in collaboration with Imag9ne Media. JPFF features work by local artists and independent film-makers based in Jamaica Plain ...

As a renter herself, At-Large Boston City Councilor Erin Murphy knows what it’s like to face the squeeze of the rising cost of housing. Erin Murphy is Dorchester through and through. She was born in ...

Hello, neighbors. This is Chris Helms, publisher of the site you’re reading, the Jamaica Plain News. If that name rings a bell, it may be because you knew me as the founding editor of Jamaica Plain ...