Since the PILOT program’s creation in 2010, the city has been shorted over $204 million. Imagine what the city could have done had those funds been collected.
Enid Eckstein
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PILOT payments should be standardized statewide
A correction has been added to this commentary, correcting the payment amount of Harvard University. “It’s about fairness. It’s about how do you want to participate in this city that you get city services from: police, fire, public works. I think you should share in those costs.” So spoke Boston’s late former mayor, Thomas Menino, […]
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Breaking down hospital community benefits
2020 was a year like no other. COVID-19 laid bare many inequities in our Commonwealth and nation. Black and Latinx residents, many of whom are low-wage essential workers, immigrants, and non-English speakers were most impacted by both the virus leading to higher rates of hospitalization and death, as well as by the accompanying chronic economic […]
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Hospitals tackling health of their neighborhoods
BOSTON’S HOSPITALS are currently collaborating on an exciting new way to identify and address the social and economic challenges facing city residents, creating a potentially powerful way to improve health and promote equity. But in order to deliver on this promise, hospitals will need to stretch further, collaborate on investments, measure impact, and make themselves […]
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Tracking hospital community investments
IN FEBRUARY, ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY released her office’s revised community benefit guidelines for hospitals and for HMOs—with scant media attention. This surprised the two of us a bit, as many a health policy discussion in recent years centered on issues of greater hospital accountability for investing resources to advance community health status, as well […]