BETWEEN A SHACK AND A FAR PLACE
This is the first installment in a multi-part DigBoston series about how the rent is too damn high and how that’s not changing anytime soon. BY CHRIS FARAONE @FARA1 After too many years of living like...
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How Boston homeowners and renters wound up with a common enemy, and fought back together Editor’s note: As noted in a previous installment of our series on the state of housing in Boston, I have...
View ArticleTHERE’S A GOOD CHANCE YOUR LEAST FAVORITE SLUMLORD GOT HIS ASS KICKED BY THE...
Images by Chris Faraone Many Bostonians dream of making a six-figure salary and of having a safe, maybe even comfortable place to call home. Unfortunately, not everyone in the Hub can win election to...
View ArticleEXODUS IN EASTIE: IN MAVERICK SQUARE, A COMMUNITY CLINGS TO HOME
Images by Emily Hopkins “Thanks, first, to God.” This was the translated refrain of East Boston residents, standing before a room full of their brethren, on the night before Thanksgiving. There’s...
View ArticleEASTBOUND AND GOWN: AS STUDENTS DISPLACE LONGTIME EAST BOSTONIANS, A...
WORDS + PHOTOS BY BY ERIN NOLAN Mireya, an immigrant from Colombia, loves living in East Boston, her home of more than 20 years. She knows the neighborhood well—the bustle of Maverick Square during...
View ArticleTHERE’S A GOOD CHANCE YOUR LEAST FAVORITE SLUMLORD GOT HIS ASS KICKED BY THE...
Given the opportunity to publicly address the grievances leveled against him, City Realty Co-Owner Steve Whalen stood at the microphone, pulled his pants down, and covered the entire chamber in a...
View ArticleEXODUS IN EASTIE: IN MAVERICK SQUARE, A COMMUNITY CLINGS TO HOME
"They are the faces of the “displacement crisis."
View ArticleEASTBOUND AND GOWN: AS STUDENTS DISPLACE LONGTIME EAST BOSTONIANS, A...
“We will lose the connection, the tight community we have in our neighborhood,” she said of more transient renters. “We won’t get to know our neighbors.”
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