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

Written by 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

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

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

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