Our work has been made possible through the support of the following foundations:
Boston Bar Foundation
The Boston Foundation
Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Clippership
Commonstream Foundation
Hyams Foundation
The Lenny Zakim Fund
Miller Foundation
Racial Justice Collaborative
Solidago Foundation
United Way of Massachusetts Bay
and the many individual donors who support our work.
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MISSION STATEMENT:
"City Life/Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization in Boston committed to fighting for racial, social, and economic justice and gender equality by building working class power through direct action, coalition building, education and advocacy. Through organizing poor and working class people of diverse races and nationalities;we promote individual empowerment, develop community leaders, and build collective power to effect systemic change and transform society."
Now is arguably a “political moment”. It is a time when the common sense of one era doesn’t seem to make sense, and new possibilities and priorities can be born of common experience. The current financial/economic crisis, born out of predatory loans capitalizing on a national housing crisis, has made clear how exploitation of the majority is made possible through existing inequity and targeting based on race, gender and class.
click here
to see City Life Vida Urbana
as featured on Bill Moyer's Journal broadcast May 1st
NEWS!!!
On May 22, 2009 President Obama signed a law which provides 90 day tenant protections for tenants living in foreclosed properties nationally.
All tenants must get a 90 day notice before eviction process can be started as a result of foreclosure. In addition most tenants that have leases can continue to live in their homes until the end of the term of their lease.
The rights of Section 8 tenants are also protected because the new owner at foreclosure must accept both the tenant's lease and the housing assistance Payment (HAP) contract.
For more information, please contact us.
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Building solidarity to put people before profit.
Need information about your rights as a tenant? Click here
City Life/Vida Urbana
284 Amory Street
1st Floor
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Mailing address: PO Box 300107 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Phone: 617.524.3541 Fax: 617.524.3555
organize@clvu.org
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