IN A HISTORIC win for Boston’s housing justice movement and working-class families, the Boston City Council recently voted 11-2, in favor of rent stabilization! Now the power is in the hands of Beacon Hill legislators to lift the statewide ban on rent control and bring stronger tenant protections to Massachusetts. Thirty years ago, the big-profit […]
Mimi Ramos
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What’s needed in response to COVID-19 crisis
THE FEDERAL AND STATE response to the COVID-19 crisis has been a failure. As we approach a full year of grappling with this historic crisis, and as we mourn the loss of more than 400,000 Americans, it is time to recognize that our policymakers have failed because they have not listened to the people who […]