“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
OPINION: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE SEPT 14 ELECTION RESULTS
“There is a whole other backstory to the races in Wards 5 and 7, as well as in the races for the At-Large seats on the City Council.”
OPINION: SOMERVILLE COUNCILOR CALLS FOR MORE ACTION ON HOUSING
“But after dealing with long affordable housing waitlists and navigating endless red tape, I found that keeping our family together was no easy feat.”
OPINION: THE CASE AGAINST BODY CAMERAS FOR SOMERVILLE POLICE
“Expanding the role and number of police officers inherently contradicts the mayor’s stated goal of eliminating systemic racism.”