Brighton Marine Health Center Information

Since 1940, Brighton Marine Health Center (BMHC) has been a vital social service resource to the Allston-Brighton community, and in particular, to its veterans. So perhaps it is just a logical extension of a long-standing mission that Brighton Marine now embarks on its most ambitious project to date: the development of more than 100 units of affordable housing along Commonwealth Avenue in Brighton to accommodate soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who are drawn to city living but are unable to meet the expense. For veterans and their families, doors once closed are soon to be opened. The construction of this veterans-preference complex will allow a veteran hired as a Boston police officer or firefighter to meet residency requirements and rent an apartment in Boston. It will allow a health care worker returning from service who has been hired at one of Boston’s many hospitals to live close to his/her job. It will allow a native of Brighton who left to serve his country to come back to the neighborhood he/she loves.