• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • NEWS+OPINIONS
    • NEWS TO US
    • COLUMNS
      • APPARENT HORIZON
      • DEAR READER
      • Close
    • LONGFORM FEATURES
    • OPINIONS
    • EDITORIAL
    • Close
  • ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
    • FILM
    • MUSIC
    • COMEDY
    • PERFORMING ARTS
    • VISUAL ARTS
    • Close
  • DINING+DRINKING
    • EATS
    • SIPS
    • BOSTON BETTER BEER BUREAU
    • Close
  • LIFESTYLE
    • CANNABIS
      • TALKING JOINTS MEMO
      • Close
    • WELLNESS
    • GTFO
    • Close
  • STUFF TO DO
  • TICKETS
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT
    • MASTHEAD
    • ADVERTISE
    • Close
  • BECOME A MEMBER

Dig Bos

The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source

Housing

50 YEARS OF YEAST AND LOVE: AN ORAL HISTORY OF HALEY HOUSE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 23, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction, Specials

“First we saw that people were homeless and needed a place to stay. Then we saw that they were hungry and they needed food. Then we figured out that people needed permanent housing. And then jobs.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction, Specials Tagged With: anniversary, bakery, Bing Broderick, Boston, Catholic Workers, Dudley Square, Haley House, history, homelessness, Housing, John McKenna, Kathe McKenna, Roxbury, Shelter, south end, throwback, training programs, Vietnam

SPECIAL FEATURE: LITTLE HOUSE EMISSARIES

Written by KAREN MORALES Posted May 5, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

From Martha’s Vineyard to Boston to Los Angeles, the small home movement struggles for acceptance at the end of the road

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journlism, Housing, Karen Morales, little houses, Los Angeles, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, sustainability, tiny homes, tiny houses

EXODUS IN EASTIE: IN MAVERICK SQUARE, A COMMUNITY CLINGS TO HOME

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted December 2, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS

"They are the faces of the “displacement crisis."

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Andres Del Castillo, City Life, east boston, Housing, housing crunch, Matt Nickell, Maverick Street, Maverick Street Realty, rentals, slumlords, tenant rights, Vida Urbana, vigil. Boston

‘NO MORE THAN FOUR’ NO MORE

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted October 5, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS

Focusing on overcrowding in this arguably discriminatory fashion hurts students who can hardly afford rent to begin with

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Allston, Boston College, boston university, dormitories, emerson college, Emily Hopkins, Housing, Inspectional Services Department, mayor Marty Walsh, Northeastern, overcrowding, Simmons College

BOSTON’S BESTEST ANNUAL GRATUITOUS SEASONAL PROTEST PIECE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted April 27, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

With such precedents in mind, it’s important to keep watch as younger actions blossom, and as veteran activists find new direction.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, BHSC, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston Globe, Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee, Boston Tea Party, Cambridge, Charlie Baker, City Life Vida Urbana, Elizabeth Warren, Fannie Mae, Fight For 15, foreclosures, fossil fuel divestment, Freddie Mac, harvard, Housing, labor, Local 26, Maura Healey, mayor Marty Walsh, No Boston Olympics, police brutality, police misconduct, Protest, service workers, spring, State House, tufts

CHINATOWN FAMILIES WEATHER HOUSING STORM

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 26, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

If you lived here, you’d be homeless by now.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 103 Hudson Street, Boston, Chinatown, Chinatown Progressive Association, Housing, Housing Rights

REMEMBERING THE HOMELESS WHO PASSED, DOING RIGHT BY THOSE WHO SURVIVED

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 22, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Regardless of some blessed future prospect, the temporary truth is that the closing of Long Island is a nightmare.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: beds, Boston, City Hall, homelessness, houselessness, Housing, housing crisis, long island shelter, mayor Marty Walsh, Newmarket, Protest, Quincy, Recovery, rehabilitation, Shelters

PICS: BOSTON’S HOMELESS RALLY FOR SOLUTION OUTSIDE CITY HALL, STATE HOUSE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted November 20, 2014 Filed Under: News

As the weather cools, it's more important than ever to keep up on the plight of Boston's homeless, many of whom relied on services provided at the Long Island Shelter, which has now been closed for more than a month due to bridge infrastructure issues.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: beds, Boston, City Hall, homelessness, houselessness, Housing, housing crisis, long island shelter, Quincy, rehabilitation, Shelters

THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE YOUR LEAST FAVORITE SLUMLORD GOT HIS ASS KICKED BY THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL YESTERDAY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 21, 2014 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

Given the opportunity to publicly address the grievances leveled against him, City Realty Co-Owner Steve Whalen stood at the microphone, pulled his pants down, and covered the entire chamber in a diarrhea tsunami.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Ayanna Pressley, Bill Linehan, Boston City Council, Boston slumlords, City Life, Ciy Realty, foreclosures, Housing, michelle wu, overcrowding, Right to the City, Steve Murphy, Steve Whalen, student housing, Vida Urbana

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 9
  • Go to page 10
  • Go to page 11

Primary Sidebar

LOCAL EVENTS

AAN Wire


Most Popular

  • Does Massachusetts Underestimate Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
  • The Most Expensive Massachusetts City For Car Insurance (No, It’s Not Boston)
  • If You Find A Mini Felted Animal Around Boston, This Is Where It Came From
  • Photo Dispatch: “Ukraine Day” Rally In Boston’s Copley Square
  • As Prices Soar, Fossil Fuel Industry Looks After Its Interests On Beacon Hill

Footer

Social Buttons

DigBoston facebook DigBoston Twitter DigBoston Instagram

Masthead

About

Advertise

Customer Service

About Us

DigBoston is a one-stop nexus for everything worth doing or knowing in the Boston area. It's an alt-weekly, it's a website, it's an email blast, it's a twitter account, it's that cool party that you were at last night ... hey, you're reading it, so it's gotta be good. For advertising inquiries: sales@digboston.com To reach editorial (and for inquiries about internship opportunities): editorial@digboston.com