Photo by Cindy Weisbart New transit arrives in Somerville, met with a mixed bag of emotions (Somerville Wire) – Somerville celebrated the opening of the first phase of the Green Line Extension, with new stations in Union Square and Lechmere, on March 21. The moment was historic, the result of decades of planning, and passengers, […]
SPECIAL SEQUEL: DESACRALIZED
As another historic Black Boston institution is gentrified, a congregation displaced by condos reflects on this trend and what it means BY CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA [Read the first installment of this series] City churches were designed to be walkable and serve their immediate neighborhoods, but as historically working-class or African American neighborhoods gentrify […]
OPINION: ONE TOOL AGAINST DISPLACEMENT, RENT HIKES, SPECULATION
“TOPA would allow communities to slow displacement and gentrification by removing some homes from the for-profit, speculative, escalating market, and making them permanently affordable.” Speculators are driving up prices, blocking new home-buyers, and promoting destabilization of neighborhoods, displacement of long-time residents, and gentrification. Is this inevitable? Those issues were the topic of my last newsletter. […]
OPINION: CASH SALES OF SOMERVILLE HOMES DRIVING DISPLACEMENT, GENTRIFICATION
Investors interested in maximizing profit regularly outbid homebuyers and jack rents on tenants
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.”
