Gov. Maura Healey’s Affordable Homes Act addresses the housing crisis in several useful ways, but leaves out repealing a statewide ban on rent control.
Asserting an arbitrary standard of “decorum” while prohibiting the naming of names not only intimidates the public but violate the School Committee’s own rules and a ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court.
Let’s allow the Affordable Housing Trust to fund rental vouchers, fund new programs to house the unhoused and give those who have experienced housing instability a seat at the table.
I strongly believe that supporting an open, public process is the key to combating inequity, and I am deeply upset that caregivers, teachers and staff are being excluded from sharing their voices about principal Kathleen Smith.
if Winn thinks that green-lighting affordable housing projects with 100-plus units in our fair city is an onerous process, try living at Walden Square Road in the coming years.
Working with disengaged kids is about relationships, but attendance policies allow for disengagement without prioritizing connections that might turn it around.
Leaving children and educators in inadequate swing space for more time than necessary, with no apparent solution for the next building failure, should not be an option.
It is the responsibility of elected leaders to review and determine which projects would benefit those in greater need, rather than outsourcing this crucial task of spending $2 million to a popularity contest than can be swayed by those with more resources.