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John Hall, 2026 Rogerson Award Honoree, Built a Career Building Communities

John L. Hall II is a renowned real estate developer whose expertise, accumulated over a 50-year-long career, is highly respected and sought out by peers. He is also a larger-than-life personality who commands a room, once emphasizing a point in a meeting by slapping the conference room table with enough force to break his hand. In short, he’s someone who people pay attention to. He is also a leader deeply motivated by worthy causes, putting his talents and generosity to work in service of those in need of high-quality, affordable homes, including thousands of older adults. In recognition of this…

Boston Housing Champion Victoria Williams to be Honored with Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award

Rogerson Communities is saddened by the passing of Victoria Williams, a tireless advocate for equal housing rights in Boston and a longtime friend to the organization. Williams will be recognized posthumously with a lifetime achievement award for her decades of advocacy and contributions to the cause of fair and affordable housing in Boston at Rogerson’s fundraising gala in October. Williams served as Co-President of Forward, Inc., an organization founded by civil rights icon Melnea Cass—and one that has long worked closely with Rogerson—to serve older adults in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. A lifelong Bostonian, Williams spent more than 30 years in…

The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation Gives $600,000 for Rogerson House Redevelopment

Rogerson Communities today announced the award of a $600,000 grant from the Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation in support of the organization’s redevelopment of its Rogerson House memory care facility in Jamaica Plain. The award, one of several that Rogerson has garnered this year in support of the project, will be directed toward the construction of a new six-story building with 66 new memory care units, in addition to 41 new affordable independent living apartments for older adults, to replace the existing Rogerson House building on site. The new building will include space for the organization’s memory care social day program and a Fitness FIRST center, and feature more than 20,000 square feet of outdoor space, including four…

Linn Foundation Gives $250K for Rogerson House Redevelopment

Rogerson Communities announced today the receipt of a $250,000 grant from the Ruby W. and LaVon P. Linn Foundation in support of its Rogerson House redevelopment project in Jamaica Plain. The project consists of building a new six-story building with 66 memory care units, in addition to 41 affordable independent living apartments for older adults, to replace the existing Rogerson House building on site. The new building will include space for the organization’s memory care social day program, a Fitness FIRST center, and feature more than 20,000 square feet of outdoor space, including four garden areas, portions of which will…

Caring for Those Who Care

Mumtaz Budwani’s life has been one of transitions: from her native Bangladesh to the United States; from Chicago, where she spent much of her adulthood, to Boston; from mother to grandmother. And from a teacher, depended upon by hundreds of families to educate, nurture, and care for their children, to an older adult in need of care herself. For Mumtaz, who now lives in Boston with her daughter, that means depending on family for support. But her daughter and son-in-law—both physicians, and parents to small children of their own—have limited capacity to provide the care and attention that Mumtaz deserves. That’s why she boards a Rogerson van outside her…