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‘Building justice’ Creating low-income housing is a higher calling for Boston firm

Dudley Village in Roxbury, MA is the latest achievement of the Boston firm The Narrow Gate. (photo: Peter Vanderwarker)
By Robert Campbell / Globe Correspondent / January 24, 2010

Good works are the goal of a small Boston firm that calls itself The Narrow Gate.
Narrow Gate architects design only for low-income people. Their latest and biggest achievement is Dudley Village, a cluster of 50 new apartments in five low-rise buildings, scattered along both sides of three blocks of Dudley Street in Roxbury.
Dudley Village is an example of what can be achieved when enough time, talent, and passion are applied to a tight budget and difficult site. Nothing about this architecture says “affordable.’’
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