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How Not to Fix Gentrification - Boston Review

The community development industry has failed in the fight for fair housing. Despite claiming to involve residents, power and self-interest still have the final say.

Weighing the pros and cons of rent control | Dorchester Reporter

Weighing the pros and cons of rent control | Dorchester Reporter

How Not to Fix Gentrification

How Not to Fix Gentrification from Boston Review. The community development industry has failed in the fight for fair housing. Despite claiming to involve residents, power and self-interest still have the final say.

How Not to Fix Gentrification

What We Are Reading Today: Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston

Author: Jeremy R. Levine Who makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing Community offers a rich ethnographic portrait of the individuals who implement community development projects in the Fairmount Corridor, one of Boston’s poorest areas. Jeremy Levine uncovers a network of

Advocates rally in Dot, press push for an anti-eviction law

By Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent May 6, 2021 Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent A group of activists gathered near the Second Church of Dorchester in Codman Square last Thursday, April 29 to call for state lawmakers to pass legislation to halt no-fault evictions in the wake of the Covid pandemic. Photo by Katie Pedersen About thirty people joined a march along Washington Street in Codman Square last Thursday to push for state lawmakers to adopt a bill intended to halt no-fault evictions in the wake of the Covid pandemic. The event— organized by City Life/Vida Urbana and held despite a heavy rain— highlighted the group’s success in assisting two Dorchester people— Jean Gaspard and Stephania Pierre-Noel— who were facing imminent evictions earlier this year to stay in their homes.