Next City, September 7, 2023, This Project Provides Housing And Tech Training For Boston’s Young Women Of Color
Welcome to G{Code} House, a place where women and nonbinary people of color ages 18-24 can reside as they complete a two year coding course that prepares them to enter the workforce.
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s 2020 report lists Boston as the country’s third most “intensely gentrified” city. From 2013 to 2017 especially, Roxbury and other neighborhoods in the city faced accelerating levels of gentrification as the city’s tech sector expanded, with Black and Latino residents disproportionately bearing the brunt of it.
The school will be welcoming their ninth cohort this fall, thanks to the help of donations from the community and the service of volunteers who help to carry out program functions, including volunteer instructors who teach programming and other tech skills. The house is also in the midst of a capital campaign to raise money for the renovation project that is set to start in fall 2024.
