Housing Archives

January 14, 2021 By ZACK HUFFMAN

NO RELIEF IN SIGHT

In a COVID winter, it’s harder than ever to find a public bathroom in Boston. What’s the city doing about it?

July 21, 2020 By RICH TENORIO

SHOCKING DISCRIMINATION: RESEARCHER BEHIND NEW BOSTON HOUSING STUDY EXPLAINS BIAS, BIGOTRY BLACK RENTERS FACE

“The results of this study are deeply troubling and further reinforce the immediate need to address the longstanding injustices Black people face in every aspect of their lives.”

July 13, 2020 By SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

EVICTION FIGHT ENDURES AS END TO MASSACHUSETTS MORATORIUM LOOMS

Speakers presented a new report created by researches at Massachusetts Institute for Technology and City Life, which revealed that 70% of evictions in Boston are in communities where the majority of the population are people of color—Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan.

July 6, 2020 By RICH TENORIO

UP TO THE CHALLENGE, FOR CHELSEA: DOCTOR EXPLAINS TRIUMPHS, TERROR OF COVID STRUGGLE

“In a community like Chelsea, with many families in one [housing] unit … With a disease as contagious as this one, isolation is the key.”

April 29, 2020 By DAN ATKINSON

LANDLORDS CAN’T EVICT DURING PANDEMIC, BUT A BUNCH OF THEM TRIED

“It was sort of testing the water with it, seeing what [evictions] they can get away with. This legislation stopped folks in their tracks before it caught on.”