Please get your group to endorse this letter NOW to prevent the state from ending pandemic emergency rental assistance. We need sign-ons. Feel free to read the state's declaration here. / Por favor, haga que sus grupos respalden esta petición AHORA para evitar que el Estado ponga fin a la asistencia de renta de emergencia de la pandemia. Necesitamos que lo hagan a más tardar el viernes al mediodía. No dude en leer la declaración del Estado aquí.

The Baker administration has abruptly decided to ramp down emergency rental assistance... even though there are millions in unused, available federal funds that could be employed to continue this critical help. Key changes that will begin to ramp down the program take effect January 1, 2022 unless we push the Governor, DHCD, and the State Legislature to act NOW./ La administración de Baker ha decidido abruptamente reducir la asistencia de renta de emergencia ... a pesar de que hay millones en fondos federales disponibles que no han sido utilizados que podrían usarse para continuar con esta ayuda crítica. Los cambios clave que comenzarán a reducir el programa entrarán en vigor el 1º  de enero de 2022 a menos que presionemos al Gobernador, a DHCD y a la Legislatura Estatal para que actúen AHORA.

Meme used for Housing Equity Bill Twitter Storm / Meme usado durante "tormenta de tweets" en apoyo de la propuesta de ley de Equidad de Vivienda

Friday, December 3rd: The organized tenant association from Advanced Property Management  (APM) buildings in Hyde Park and housing advocates gathered at Doyle Playground to march to Stephanie Rouse’s home for a vigil in support of Ms.Rouse’s fight to win a motion to reconsider damages caused by APM. Rouse, who is a disabled great grandmother and a cancer survivor, has faced terrible conditions, a no fault-eviction, and targeted retaliation for her organizing at the hands of APM. Tenants showed up on Friday to demand that Rouse get the same multi-year cont​​ract they have along with just compensation for the years she lived in life threatening conditions. / El viernes 3 de diciembre: La asociación organizada de inquilinos de los edificios de Advanced Property Management (APM) en Hyde Park y los defensores de la vivienda se reunieron en el parque infantil Doyle para marchar a la casa de Stephanie Rouse para hacer unaVigilia en apoyo a la lucha de la Sra. Rouse para ganar una Moción para reconsiderar los daños causados por APM. Rouse, quien es una bisabuela discapacitada y sobreviviente de cáncer, ha enfrentado condiciones terribles, un desalojo sin culpa y represalias específicas por su organización en manos de APM. Los inquilinos se presentaron el viernes para exigir que Rouse obtenga el mismo contrato de varios años que tienen junto con una compensación justa por los años que vivió en condiciones que amenazaban su vida.

Tenant leaders from the Fairlawn Tenants Association were joined by residents from other tenant associations across Suffolk County in a march to DSF Group’s office, as a part of the “Homes! For the Holidays'' action series organized by City Life/Vida Urbana. With the support of over 50 tenants, homeowners, a city councilor, and community members from across the city–Fairlawn leaders called upon DSF to meet with them to start negotiations for a fair contract. Fairlawn leaders have been without a lease for 3 years while fighting off rent increases, ever since DSF group purchased the Fairlawn building and renamed it SoMa by the T. / Los líderes de la Asociación de Inquilinos de Fairlawn acompañados por los residentes de otras asociaciones de inquilinos de todo el condado de Suffolk marcharon a las oficinas del Grupo DSF,como parte de la serie de acciones de ”¡Hogares! Para las fiestas”. organizad por City Life/Vida Urbana. Con el apoyo de más de 50 inquilinos, propietarios de viviendas, una concejal de la ciudad y miembros de la comunidad de toda la ciudad, los líderes de Fairlawn pidieron a DSF que se reuniera con ellos para iniciar las negociaciones de un contrato justo. Los líderes de Fairlawn han estado sin un contrato de renta durante 3 años, mientras luchaban contra los aumentos de renta, desde que el grupo DSF compró el edificio de Fairlawn y le cambió el nombre a “SoMa at the T”.  

Tuesday, November 30th: Organized Broadway Capital tenants and advocates gathered in Chelsea City Hall to oppose Managing Director of Broadway Capital  Mikael R. Vienneau's project proposal for 20 luxury condos at 146-150 Williams & 65 Pine street. This project proposal would worsen gentrification in the City of Chelsea and price out long-term residents already struggling with terrible conditions. / El martes 30 de noviembre, se reunieron los inquilinos y los defensores organizados de Broadway Capital en el Ayuntamiento de Chelsea para oponerse a la propuesta de proyecto del Director de Broadway Capital, Mikael R. Vienneau,  de 20 condominios de lujo en 146-150 Williams y 65 Pine Street. Esta propuesta de proyecto empeoraría la gentrificación en la ciudad de Chelsea y afectaría a los residentes de mucho tiempo que ya enfrentan condiciones terribles.  

We hope you consider donating to support the critical work City Life / Vida Urbana does today and beyond the pandemic this holiday season. Please make your gift today while it's on your mind. Donate here. 

En esta temporada navideña, esperamos que considere hacer una donación para apoyar el trabajo crítico que City Life / Vida Urbana está haciendo durante y más allá de la pandemia. Haga su donación hoy, mientras lo tiene en mente. Done aquí.

In November, HFA led a digital day of action in response to the formal legislative session ending last week 11/17. We tweeted, made calls and emails to hit communications lines of Housing committee co-chairs Senator Keenan and Representative Arciero. // En noviembre, la HFA lideró un día de acción digital en respuesta al final de la sesión legislativa formal que terminó la semana pasada el 17 de noviembre. Tweeteamos, realizamos llamadas y correos electrónicos hace los copresidentes del comité de vivienda, el senador Keenan y el representante Arciero.

in The Boston Globe on June 16, 2014 by Lawrence Harmon

THE DIFFICULTY of finding and holding onto an economical rental unit in Boston is enough to make a grown man cry. Not just any man, but Stephen Key, a Hall of Fame member of the World Martial Arts Federation. Key, 53, has shown the skill and courage needed to reach grandmaster status in kung fu. Yet he shed tears last week while describing his efforts to keep a roof over the head of his wife and three children on Norwell Street in Dorchester after government-sponsored mortgage giant Fannie Mae foreclosed on his former landlord and moved to evict the building’s tenants.

in Dig Boston on June 17, 2014 by Chris Faraone

Sometimes the best way to make a point is to commit a defensible crime. And so earlier this month, more than a hundred Boston residents and allies occupied a vacant, foreclosed home on Norwell Street in Dorchester. Once there, organizers settled in a family that had previously been booted from another house, and also built a pop-up pirate radio station with a rooftop antenna to broadcast their message: The housing crisis isn’t over!

in The Boston Globe on June 12, 2014, by Paul McMorrow, Globe Columnist

MASSACHUSETTS PICKED a fight with the federal government and the companies behind half the country’s mortgages last week. Attorney General Martha Coakley’s decision to sue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nationalized mortgage giants, is a preemptive strike meant to defend the state’s tough foreclosure prevention laws. It’s also a serious uphill slog. Chicago was the last government to take on Fannie and Freddie, and it lost the fight badly.

In The Boston Globe on June 11, 2014, by Jacqueline Tempera

A coalition of community groups protested outside a foreclosed Dorchester home Tuesday and called for more affordable housing in Boston.

The group, made up of seven nonprofit organizations, took to Norwell Street for the second time this week. Over the weekend, the group attempted to move a homeless family into the vacant house, only to be driven out by law enforcement officials, said Darnell Johnson, a coalition spokesman.