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Davis Square Developer Plans Lab Space As Small Businesses Await Unknown Fate

Written by RÓNÁN FITZGERALD Posted July 26, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“The Sligos of the world might become history a lot quicker than people might think”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: davis square, development, gentrification, news, news to us, Scape, small business, SOMERVILLE

New Installations In Egleston Square Address Housing Insecurity, Engage Public

Written by MOLLY FARRAR Posted June 9, 2022 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

“In the end, what we did was have everyone write about how the housing crisis affects them personally.”

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Art, Egleston, gentrification, Housing, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury

THE GREEN LINE EXTENSION: TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION OR CAUSING DISPLACEMENT?

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted March 22, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

New transit arrives in Somerville, met with a mixed bag of emotions

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: affordable, gentrification, green line, Housing, transportation

“LIVE THE MAGIC” EXHIBIT TACKLES GENTRIFICATION AND ROXBURY ERASURE

Written by DELANEY BEAUDOIN Posted March 2, 2022 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

“The marketing of this particular condo development represents a common tactic: erasure of reality and history.”

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: arts, gentrification, Housing, Roxbury, visual arts

SPECIAL FEATURE ON THE PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING IN BOSTON

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted February 1, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

In the nationwide bipartisan blitz to privatize public housing, Boston’s giving billions worth of benefits to some of America’s largest developers, financiers, and property management firms. Politicians are applauding, but for many residents caught in the transition, their housing future is unclear

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, BPDA, City Hall, development, gentrification, Housing, HUD

DESACRALIZED PT. 2: “IT’S GOING TO BE HARD TO DRIVE DOWN THAT STREET”

Written by CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA Posted January 6, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

As another historic Black Boston institution is gentrified, a congregation displaced by condos reflects on this trend and what it means

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, features, gentrification, Housing, longform, religion, south end

EAST BOSTON FAMILIES HOLD VIGIL TO STOP REDEVELOPMENT OF HOMES

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted June 18, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The gathering is being held by families at 168 Gove Street, in response to a luxury developer's plan to build condos.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: City Life, development, east boston, gentrification, vigil

SEPTUAGENARIANS AGAINST GENTRIFICATION. A JAMAICA PLAIN STORY.

Written by IÑAKI ESTÍVALIZ Posted April 28, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

For these two activists, the fight for the future of a JP church started more than 50 years ago.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: church, gentrification, Jamaica Plain, septuagenarian

PART OF THE PROBLEM

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 13, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

From racist real estate practices to bigoted laws, the Boston suburbs are largely white for a reason

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Column, Democracy, economy, gentrification, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Politics, racism, slider, suburbs

REST IN YEAST (FOR NOW AT LEAST): A LANDMARK BAKERY SAYS GOODBYE TO ITS CAMBERVILLE HOME

Written by DIEGO MARCANO Posted January 1, 2020 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Two days before New Year’s Eve, the company’s 12 staffers woke up unemployed. Still, in hope of reinventing their venture somewhere else, Andrew and Greta are taking everything with them

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: bakery, buildings, business, Cambridge, development, gentrification, Greta and Andrew Platt, hikes, planning, RENT, SOMERVILLE, Somerville News Garden, The Biscuit, zoning

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