11 Mar The Boston Globe: She has battled homelessness, and she’s a housing case manager

Posted at 16:44h in In the News 2020

Source: The Boston Globe Governor Baker’s Housing Choice bill (“Letting towns solve the Mass. housing shortage,” Editorial, Feb. 19) will help towns enact housing reform by implementing a simple majority vote for zoning decisions, but for people like me and thousands of others, nothing is simple. There...

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24 Feb The Daily Free Press: Rents in Boston are increasing at lesser degrees, but prices remain on the rise

Posted at 16:31h in In the News 2020

Source: The Daily Free Press By Kyla Denisevich Data released by the City of Boston show increases in rent are diminishing. However, local residents are not yet feeling the effects of this development. Housing rental prices in Boston increased by 1.3 percent from 2018 to 2019, the lowest...

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29 Jan Jamaica Plain News: Mayor Walsh Appoints Two Jamaica Plain Residents to Reactivated Human Rights Commission

Posted at 16:42h in In the News 2020

Source: Jamaica Plains News By David Ertischek | January 28, 2020 Boston's Human Rights Commission had been inactive since 1996, but seeing the challenging times we live in, Mayor Marty Walsh decided to reactivate it. "As attacks on human rights continue from the highest levels of our country, here in Boston,...

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28 Jan Boston Globe: A dubious distinction: Massachusetts ranks first in growth of family homelessness

Posted at 11:05h in In the News 2020

Source: Boston Globe By Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, January 28, 2020 Every year, thousands of Massachusetts children and their families tumble into homelessness. The state is a dismal national leader, in fact, with the highest percentage increase in family homelessness in any state since 2007, according to new federal...

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