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CAMBRIDGE ARTISTS FIGHTING BACK AGAINST DISPLACEMENT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 16, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

Reflections on a new grassroots political movement in formation

 

Another Cambridge arts institution is being pushed out of its longtime home by a greedy landlord. And once again, local artists are mobilizing to “discuss and organize for meaningful political action to support the arts” in that city—as the Facebook ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, Art, artists, Ben Simon, Cambridge, City Council, Column, displacement, EMF, gentrification, Green Street Studios, Housing, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Mobius, Nadeem Mazen, news, Nicola Williams, Politics

EASTBOUND AND GOWN: AS STUDENTS DISPLACE LONGTIME EAST BOSTONIANS, A COMMUNITY WELCOMES NEWCOMERS BUT NOT WITHOUT SOME CONCERNS

Written by ERIN NOLAN Posted September 10, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“We will lose the connection, the tight community we have in our neighborhood,” she said of more transient renters. “We won’t get to know our neighbors.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Boston East, City Life, condos, development, displacement, east boston, eastie, gentrification, Housing, housing costs, immigration, Lydia Edwards, Maverick Square, rent control, Vida Urbana

THIS PLACE/DISPLACED: A SPOTLIGHT ON DISPLACEMENT, GENTRIFICATION, AND HOUSING INEQUALITY IN BOSTON

Written by DENNIS MALER Posted August 15, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

In preparation for this run, ATB producers went to City Life meetings to partner with those who were interested in sharing stories of displacement. In doing so, they were shocked by the number of people who wanted to participate.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Activism, Boston, City Life Vida Urbana, displacement, gentrification, Housing, theater, This Place/Displaced

UNWILLING CONVERTS: SOMERVILLE’S LARGEST CONDO GRAB IN HISTORY YIELDS RELATIVE TENANT WIN IN TENSE MARKET

Written by ROB KATZ Posted March 28, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“We have to recognize, you know, people enter the building renting because the circumstances mean that renting is what works for them ... I think we have to have protections and safeguards to allow those individuals to continue getting the benefits they’re entitled to.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: building, condos, Curtatone, development, displacement, gentrification, Housing, organizing, SOMERVILLE, tenants, zoning

CHINATOWN CONUNDRUM BECOMES QUINCY QUAGMIRE

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted May 11, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The fight for Chinatown has expanded beyond city limits.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Chinatown, Chinese Progressive Association, CPA, displacement, First Suffolk, gentrification, homelessness, Hudson Street, jobs, landlords, Quincy

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