Skip to content
DONATE TO BINJ
BINJ.News logo - reverse - transparent background
NEWSLETTER SIGNUP
  • HOME
  • PRISONS
  • GOVERNMENT
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • SURVEILLANCE
  • ARTS
  • VIDEOS
  • HOME
  • PRISONS
  • GOVERNMENT
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • SURVEILLANCE
  • ARTS
  • VIDEOS

housing

LINDA PINKOW

BACKYARD COTTAGES NOW ALLOWED ‘BY RIGHT’

Council makes it easier to create accessory dwelling units (Somerville Wire) – Carriage houses, backyard cottages, “tiny houses,” and other accessory dwelling units can now be created “by right” anywhere in a Neighborhood Residence district in Somerville. The City Council voted unanimously at their Sept. 8 meeting to enact amendments

Read More »
LINDA PINKOW September 20, 2022
Photo credit: Somerville Community Land Trust board and volunteers in front of 7 Summer Street. Photo courtesy of the Somerville Community Land Trust.
LINDA PINKOW

COMMUNITY LAND TRUST CELEBRATES ITS FIRST AFFORDABLE HOMES

Ribbon cutting this Wednesday for five new condos in Union Square (Somerville Wire) – Somerville is celebrating the first acquisition of permanently affordable homes on community-owned land this week. The five-unit condo building at 7 Summer St. in Union Square is the first development project of the Somerville Community Land

Read More »
LINDA PINKOW August 16, 2022
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

Read More »
LINDA PINKOW August 2, 2022
Image courtesy 60 Cross St. East
LINDA PINKOW

AFFORDABLE CONDOS FOR SALE

Eleven deeply discounted units currently available via lottery (Somerville Wire) – In collaboration with two private developers, the City is currently offering 11 new condominium units for sale at below-market rates. The opportunity to apply for these homes is open to those who currently live in Somerville or work at

Read More »
LINDA PINKOW July 12, 2022
Rendering of new Clarendon Hill development. Image courtesy of the City of Somerville.
LINDA PINKOW

NEW LIFE FOR CLARENDON HILL

City gives final approval for expansion, renovation of public housing Clarendon Hill, a 216-unit housing development in West Somerville, will be substantially enlarged, redesigned, and renovated, after the City Council last week authorized $14 million in borrowing to help finance the project. Located at 34 North St. between Alewife Brook

Read More »
LINDA PINKOW June 14, 2022
MAYA SHAFFER

PUBLIC RECORDS CRISIS DEEPENS

The case pertains to an investigation into the use of rodenticides by government agencies You have five days to agree to give us $22,000, or else …  While this may sound like an extortion note from a B movie, it’s essentially a newly state sanctioned proper response to a public

Read More »
MAYA SHAFFER May 2, 2022
A real Somerville fixer-upper. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.
LINDA PINKOW

SOMERVILLE EXTENDS EVICTION MORATORIUM ONCE MORE

End date now June 30, 2022 (Somerville Wire) – After the City of Boston lifted its eviction moratorium on March 31, Somerville is now the last municipality in the state to maintain a ban on evictions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Last Thursday, April 21, the city extended that

Read More »
LINDA PINKOW April 26, 2022
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

SOMERVILLE WIRE: APRIL 5, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

A documentary screening about police in schools, a discussion about government sponsored racism in housing, and the Mayor’s Summer Jobs Program Articles DONATE TO THE SOMERVILLE MEDIA FUND! Somerville Media Center and BINJ join forces to create municipal foundation to support nonprofit community journalism HOW DOES THE FARE COLLECTION SYSTEM

Read More »
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN April 5, 2022
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

SOMERVILLE WIRE: MARCH 22, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Events at the Somerville Museum, a tenants’ rights webinar, and the Council on Aging Board of Directors seeks new members Articles EDITORIAL: MEDIA CONSOLIDATION ACCELERATES IN SOMERVILLE Gannett merges its Somerville Journal and Medford Transcript newspapers as BINJ’s Somerville News Garden project and the Somerville Media Center launch a new

Read More »
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN March 22, 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

Read More »
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN March 22, 2022
Page1 Page2 Page3 Page4 Page5 Page6 Page7 Page8 Page9 Page10
Youtube Facebook Linkedin Instagram
Youtube Facebook
DONATE
SIGN UP
Linkedin Instagram
DONATE
SIGN UP
Candid-2025-150x150-px-1
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTERNSHIPS
  • CONTACT
  • BINJ IN THE NEWS
  • ARCHIVES
  • MASSWIRE
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTERNSHIPS
  • CONTACT
  • BINJ IN THE NEWS
  • ARCHIVES
  • MASSWIRE
Anno1
inn-member
lion-member copy

Copyright © 2026 – Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism | Massachusetts Media Fund, Inc.