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December 11, 2019 By DIEGO MARCANO and FLAVIANA SANDOVAL

OPPORTUNITIES FOR WHOM?

“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.”

Filed Under: Housing, Reporting, Reports, Somerville News Garden Tagged With: development, housing, opportunity zones, planning, Somerville, Somerville City Hall, Somerville News Garden, SomerVision

September 10, 2019 By ERIN NOLAN

EASTBOUND AND GOWN

“We have a lot of Central Americans, and we also have a wave of Arab/Middle Eastern. But what’s different now is, at least with the final wave, people are feeling they’re being pushed out.”

Filed Under: Education, Features, Housing, Immigration, Reports 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

March 7, 2019 By LYNNE DONCASTER

DILAPI-DAVIS SQUARE

Somerville residents squawk about the state of infrastructure, deteriorating public art

Filed Under: Arts, Somerville News Garden Tagged With: Curtatone, Davis Now, Davis Square, development, infrastructure, Iwerks, Somerville, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville Community Summit, Somerville News Garden

December 26, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

2019: WE HAVE 11 YEARS TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

“Sunset Koksijde” by fdecomite is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.

In last week’s column looking back at “2018: The Year in Global Warming,”  I reviewed the dire threat posed to humanity and our environment by climate change, and concluded with the following: The big question for Bostonians and anyone else reading this: How do we go from this grim state of affairs to sparking the […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: 2030, adaptation, Apparent Horizon, Boston, China, Climate Change, coal, Column, development, Fourth National Climate Assessment, france, gas, Germany, global warming, IPCC, japan, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, migration, new england, news, oil, Paris Agreement, politics, poor, survival, third world, UK, united nations, United States, US

December 5, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM

Tufts students march against tiered housing policy. Photo by Amira Al-Subaey, Tufts class of 2019.

  More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the Boston Herald. Over the summer, the Tufts administration announced that its annual lottery system for on-campus housing during each academic year would be heavily modified […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, development, dorm, gentrification, government, higher education, housing, Jason Pramas, news, politics, pricing, private, protest, public, Real Estate, Student, tufts

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