City Council, Gov. Baker have the power to force universities—Harvard, MIT, and Lesley—and hotels to provide better alternatives
CAMBRIDGE PLAN TO WAREHOUSE HOMELESS COULD SPARK COVID OUTBREAK
Housing
FORCED OFF CAMPUS, STUDENTS SCRAMBLE FOR SHELTER IN MERCILESS MARKET
From cases where landlords hiked the rental price of apartments and living spaces by 30 to 40% in less than a day, to violations of Boston’s five-or-more rule, problems persist.
IN BATTLING EVICTION, A MATRIARCH REVEALS CRUELTY OF HOUSING IN MASS
“We wrote our own tenant protection act, which has been filed. It would expand the voucher program to everyone who is over the age of 75. The state would guarantee, no matter what happens with rent, you’d be able to pay your rent and stay home.”
READER INPUT: WHAT’S WRONG WITH BOSTON?
We were happy to receive several dozen responses—many of which echoed each other, one of which was a poem, and some of which hit on subjects that we don’t think or write about enough around here.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WHOM? A HARD LOOK AT SOMERVILLE’S ‘ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT’ ZONES
"What is really critical is that community members have a voice in shaping the direction of what gets developed in our underdeveloped areas of Somerville."
MARCHING SEASON: JOIN THE RALLY FOR RENT CONTROL
Mass State House, Oct 29, noon-1:30 pm
Twenty-five years after the real estate industry destroyed rent control in Massachusetts, ...
HOUSING. SURELY WE CAN DO BETTER.
As someone who has lived in the Boston area for the past two decades and often searched for affordable housing, the news that the Boston Housing Authority is “teaming up” with private-sector developers to maintain and upgrade its housing stock left me with ...
SMALL CRIBS, BIG BASH: MIRANDA’S HEARTH RETURNS WITH FIRST MASS TINY HOUSE FEST ON NORTH SHORE
"The more conversations we have about what tiny houses are, why people are turning to them, and how it will impact communities, the better."
CAMBRIDGE ARTISTS FIGHTING BACK AGAINST DISPLACEMENT
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 ...
DON’T FORGET TO PICK UP SPARE CHANGE NEWS THIS SEASON (AND ALWAYS)
'This is who we are, these are our stories, and nobody is going to act like we have no voice around here.'
