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Tufts students march against tiered housing policy. Photo by Amira Al-Subaey, Tufts class of 2019.
JASON PRAMAS

FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM

  More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the Boston Herald. Over the summer, the Tufts administration announced that its annual lottery system for on-campus housing during each academic

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JASON PRAMAS December 5, 2018
DAN ATKINSON

FAIR HOUSING?

For developers in Boston, it may pay off to blow off inclusionary building requirements

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DAN ATKINSON November 28, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY

It was vexing to watch Bird fans that clearly hadn’t even bothered to read the article in question—let alone my broad and deep back catalog—attack me as some kind of car-loving anti-environmental reactionary in the service of flogging their hipster transportation fetish du jour.

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JASON PRAMAS August 16, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

GREENFIELD BLUES

Homelessness is not just a big-city problem in Mass

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JASON PRAMAS August 7, 2018
ROB KATZ

UNWILLING CONVERTS

Somerville’s largest condo grab in history yields relative tenant win in tense market Greg Santos moved into Somerville’s Millbrook Lofts apartment complex with his girlfriend in August 2017, looking forward to using its dedicated art space. Married couple Luciano Betoldi and Maria d’Orey, both from Portugal, immigrated to the US

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ROB KATZ March 28, 2018
TIBISAY ZEA

AGING IN THE SHADOWS

Without income or access to benefits, getting old as an undocumented is a daunting challenge It’s December, and Pedro, 78, still heads downtown to work during the day. He sings Mexican boleros and rancheras, accompanying himself with a guitar. He seems to camouflage himself under the foliage; countless Bostonians have

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TIBISAY ZEA January 17, 2018

TOWNIE: CORPORATE TAX FABLES AND COMMUNITARIAN KIDDIE TABLES

  December 12, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Big local corps quiet about huge profits to come from Repub tax scheme… except GE An interesting WBUR article, “Largest Mass. Companies Are Mostly Silent On GOP Tax Plans,” asked the top 12 corporations in the Commonwealth to comment on the

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JASON PRAMAS December 12, 2017
LAURA KIESEL

EIGHT ISN’T ENOUGH

A Somerville Housing Needs Assessment report notes that the majority of units at risk of losing their affordability are located in Union Square (pictured), as increased gentrification due to the anticipated extension of the Green Line to the neighborhood has caused spikes in the cost of property | Photo by

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LAURA KIESEL April 26, 2017

HOMELESS FOR THE HOLIDAYS: SAVAGE CUTS AND CRAPPY JOBS ARE WHAT GOT US HERE

December 6, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS For many people, the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the only time of year that their thoughts turn to the plight of the homeless. Money, food, and presents are donated. And time is volunteered at shelters. All to make sure that people

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JASON PRAMAS December 6, 2016
CHRIS FARAONE

50 YEARS OF YEAST AND LOVE

An oral history of Haley House AS TOLD TO THE BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM  If hungry people had to count on seasonal compassion, the poor would likely starve but for the holidays. The government only assists so much; in Boston, for example, it’s been two years since the closing of

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CHRIS FARAONE November 22, 2016
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