Last week when students from Community Academy, a public school in Jamaica Plain, called on the council to spend more on prevention and less on policing, their appeal seemed to have a negligible effect on the city’s budget process.
Activists from Greater Boston-area cities and towns marched on the State House as part of a national demonstration against the Trump administration’s planned cuts to federal housing programs.
So far, Kraft has taken several lines of attack against Wu, including the city’s deployment of bike lanes in virtually every neighborhood, Wu’s push to lease White Stadium to a for-profit soccer team and what he says is a lack of housing production under her administration.
Last week when students from Community Academy, a public school in Jamaica Plain, called on the council to spend more on prevention and less on policing, their appeal seemed to have a negligible effect on the city’s budget process.
Issues surrounding housing affordability are playing a prominent role in the campaigns for City Council this year, with advocacy groups pushing candidates to commit to support a push to institute a 5% cap on rent increases.
Issues surrounding housing affordability are playing a prominent role in the campaigns for City Council this year, with advocacy groups pushing candidates to commit to support a push to institute a 5% cap on rent increases.
Activists from Greater Boston-area cities and towns marched on the State House as part of a national demonstration against the Trump administration’s planned cuts to federal housing programs.
A coalition of housing advocates is calling on the Legislature to allow local municipalities the option of instituting rent stabilization. Coalition members say they are willing to take the measure to a statewide ballot next year.
