“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. […]
ALL OF THE CANDIDATES IN SOMERVILLE CALL THEMSELVES “PROGRESSIVE”—SO WHO SHOULD I VOTE FOR?
“If we truly want better outcomes, we need to elect people who are committed to being accountable to a grassroots movement”
OPINION: WHO TO SUPPORT IN THE AT-LARGE RACES?
Ken Brociner offers his take on the candidates running for councilor-at-large
SOMERVILLE WIRE: October 19, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP
A mayoral candidate debate, a councilor-at-large debate, and a City forum on ARPA funding.
INVESTIGATING THE INTERSTATE: THE HISTORY OF I-93’S CONSTRUCTION
The legacy of the roadway goes deep, with a strong push from activists in the 1970s