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affordable housing

Housing Is a Right not a Luxury

August 4, 2016 by Jeff Hall 1 Comment

While most of us know that housing in the Boston area is getting more and more expensive, you may not have realized that between 2000 and 2007 Boston was the most rapidly gentrifying city in the country, outpacing both New York and Washington, D.C. And the rate of gentrification is not the only challenge that Boston residents face. […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Building Economic Alternatives Tagged With: affordable housing, gentrification, low-wage jobs, middle class, working class

10 Facts About Housing Affordability

August 3, 2016 by Lita Kurth Leave a Comment

5 Things to Make You Furious About Housing 1. Realtors and their allies in government keep track of the growing size of single-family homes. But bigger is only better if you’re well-off. The federal government doesn’t track the size of apartments, but numerous articles predict smaller units. A 500 sq ft condo, anyone? 2. Want […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Dismantlng Classism Tagged With: affordable housing, housing housing, housing laws, working class

Inclusion, Preservation and Lottery Odds

August 3, 2016 by Danny LeBlanc Leave a Comment

Somerville used to be a place where many of the residents were people who couldn’t afford to live anywhere else. As I’ve told many younger folks in recent years, from 1978-81 I rented an eight-room home with three other young adults for $250 a month – that’s total, not per person! In today’s Somerville*, the […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Building Economic Alternatives Tagged With: affordable housing, community organizing, housing, immigrants, rent, rent burdened, working class

Need vs. Greed: Greed Wins

March 13, 2013 by Lita Kurth Leave a Comment

I’ve been interviewing people and carrying out research lately on housing affordability in San Jose, and what I’ve found has been both heartbreaking and enraging. In a city and area where housing is jaw-droppingly expensive, some of the wealthy exploit the poor, or worse, take for themselves public goods intended for the needy. Beginning my […]

Filed Under: Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in the Economy, Internalized classism, Money, Poverty Tagged With: affordable housing, homeless, immigrants, poverty

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