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THE BEST OF BINJ: HOUSING & GENTRIFICATION REPORTING

From covering the tiny house movement on Martha’s Vineyard to our series on homelessness in Cambridge

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BINJ ONLINE November 6, 2024
Ram Ranch. Photo by Sabine Ollivier-Yamin. Copyright 2023 Sabine Ollivier-Yamin.
SABINE OLLIVIER-YAMIN

‘YOU JUST MISSED IT’

An attempted farewell to the Ram Ranch punk house

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SABINE OLLIVIER-YAMIN December 8, 2023
CAAS Tenant Rally on July 29, 2022. Photo courtesy of Community Action Agency of Somerville.
LINDA PINKOW

TENANTS RALLY IN FRONT OF 6-8 MORTIMER PLACE

Protest “tidal wave of gentrification sweeping the new Green Line Extension corridor” (Somerville Wire) – Responding to soaring rents and increasing economic uncertainty, the Community Action Agency of Somerville organized a protest last Friday in support of three Brazilian families who are at imminent risk of displacement in September, after

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LINDA PINKOW August 2, 2022
Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.
RÓNÁN FITZGERALD

DAVIS SQUARE DEVELOPER PLANS LAB SPACE AS SMALL BUSINESSES AWAIT UNKNOWN FATE

“The Sligos of the world might become history a lot quicker than people might think” (Somerville Wire) – Scape North America, the US arm of the UK-based company of the same name that has for years planned to build in Davis Square, is set to officially propose its new project

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RÓNÁN FITZGERALD July 26, 2022
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

THE GREEN LINE EXTENSION: TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION OR CAUSING DISPLACEMENT?

Photo by Cindy Weisbart New transit arrives in Somerville, met with a mixed bag of emotions (Somerville Wire) – Somerville celebrated the opening of the first phase of the Green Line Extension, with new stations in Union Square and Lechmere, on March 21. The moment was historic, the result of

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN March 22, 2022
CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA

SPECIAL SEQUEL: DESACRALIZED 

As another historic Black Boston institution is gentrified, a congregation displaced by condos reflects on this trend and what it means BY CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA [Read the first installment of this series] City churches were designed to be walkable and serve their immediate neighborhoods, but as historically working-class

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CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA January 6, 2022
PAT JEHLEN

OPINION: ONE TOOL AGAINST DISPLACEMENT, RENT HIKES, SPECULATION

“TOPA would allow communities to slow displacement and gentrification by removing some homes from the for-profit, speculative, escalating market, and making them permanently affordable.” Speculators are driving up prices, blocking new home-buyers, and promoting destabilization of neighborhoods, displacement of long-time residents, and gentrification. Is this inevitable? Those issues were the

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PAT JEHLEN November 2, 2021
PAT JEHLEN

OPINION: CASH SALES OF SOMERVILLE HOMES DRIVING DISPLACEMENT, GENTRIFICATION

Investors interested in maximizing profit regularly outbid homebuyers and jack rents on tenants

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PAT JEHLEN October 26, 2021
ERIN NOLAN

EASTBOUND AND GOWN

“We have a lot of Central Americans, and we also have a wave of Arab/Middle Eastern. But what’s different now is, at least with the final wave, people are feeling they’re being pushed out.”

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ERIN NOLAN September 10, 2019
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The event is aimed at bringing area journalists together with Somerville residents to discuss issues and happenings that need coverage by local news media.

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BINJ ONLINE January 30, 2019
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