At the end of June, the federal moratorium on evictions will expire, putting thousands of families in Massachusetts at risk for eviction. Andrea Park is a housing and homelessness staff attorney with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. She says the federal moratorium doesn’t protect all tenants and the ones receiving Read more…
Rumors circulated that the landlord wanted everyone out. But Giuliana Perez could not contemplate leaving her two-bedroom apartment, where light pours into the living room, in the middle of a pandemic. What would she do with her elderly mother? How would she pay first and last month’s rent at a Read more…
Nearly 80 renters and community members turned out last Saturday at the Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston for a one-time matinee. Instead of perusing the museum’s collections, these tenants staged their own gallery exhibit outside with artistic renderings of the shoddy living conditions within the buildings owned by landlord Gerald Fineberg. Read more…
On Saturday, March 20, tenants of art collector and real estate investor Gerald Fineberg staged a pop-up exhibit and rally at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)/Boston to protest squalid conditions and evictions in properties owned and managed by the ICA board member’s firm. Head over to Hyperallergic to read Read more…
MEDFORD, MA — The issues Mary Stathos describes are straight from every renter’s nightmare: cockroaches, rodents, mold, broken amenities, safety hazards. Her kitchen floor peeled up, exposing rot underneath. Pieces of her neighbor’s ceiling were falling off when she was over for dinner. Head over to Patch to read more!
Busted appliances, broken floors, no hot water. Mary Stathos and many of her neighbors in Medford are frustrated with their landlord, Alpha Management Corporation, so they’re forming a tenants union and demanding improvements. “I went four months without a refrigerator and the linoleum in my kitchen was rotted away, exposing Read more…
Boston DSA housing working group comrades, along with City Life/Vida Urbana folks, have been actively canvassing residents of Stonybrook Village in Hyde Park since last August. After close to a year of hard work, the Stonybrook Tenants Union held a public rally against the abusive management on June 2, drawing Read more…
Stony Brook Village residents rallied against their home’s management company for retaliatory rent increase, evictions, and unliviable housing conditions on June 2, at the property in Hyde Park. Two local activist groups City Life/Vida Urbana and the Boston Democratic Socialists of America (members who have since established the non-affiliated Greater Read more…
About 100 supporters, residents and members of City Life Vida Urbana came out on Sunday afternoon to protest the practices of the owners and property management of 150 Clare Ave. /145 Navarre St. on the Roslindale/Hyde Park line. The building, which contains 98 units of affordable housing, has come under Read more…