Thread by @CityLife_Clvu

Did you catch our op-ed w/ @homesforallmass in @CommonWealthMag!?✍️🏾

Our fight to lift the statewide ban on rent control is a fight for racial + economic justice for MA working-class tenants + property owners.

Read why we need a 5% max cap #MaPoli ‼️ commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/we-wan….

@homesforallmass @CommonWealthMag @CPAJustice @ReclaimRoxbury @LynnUnitedMA @NEU4J @RTCB_Boston @SpringfieldNOL @maura_healey 30 yrs ago, the big-profit real estate industry spent $$$ to ban rent control, even though a majority of working-class Bostonians (+ the other cities that had it!) voted to keep it in place. Since then, we’ve experienced a foreclosure crisis...

@homesforallmass @CommonWealthMag @CPAJustice @ReclaimRoxbury @LynnUnitedMA @NEU4J @RTCB_Boston @SpringfieldNOL @maura_healey ...and a housing affordability/ displacement crisis that is ripping apart our neighborhoods--- but, at the same time, fuels our communities’ fight to remain here in Boston and in our communities across the Commonwealth.

@homesforallmass @CommonWealthMag @CPAJustice @ReclaimRoxbury @LynnUnitedMA @NEU4J @RTCB_Boston @SpringfieldNOL @maura_healey Nearly half of all MA renters & over 70% very low-income renters are burdened w/ unaffordable housing costs. And the burden disproportionately falls on communities of color:

@homesforallmass @CommonWealthMag @CPAJustice @ReclaimRoxbury @LynnUnitedMA @NEU4J @RTCB_Boston @SpringfieldNOL @maura_healey Out of all evictions filed during the peak of the COVID pandemic, 43% occurred in neighborhoods where the majority of residents identify as Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander, or Indigenous, though only 32% of MA rental housing falls in these neighborhoods.

@homesforallmass @CommonWealthMag @CPAJustice @ReclaimRoxbury @LynnUnitedMA @NEU4J @RTCB_Boston @SpringfieldNOL @maura_healey Areas with larger % of Black and Latinx renters saw disproportionately high rates of eviction filings. Single mothers in MA experienced higher eviction filing rates while also struggling with rising costs and challenges around food, energy, childcare, and transportation.

The push for rent control is expanding to cities and towns across the state, and a new report shows that 65% of likely voters across the Commonwealth support rent control. #MaPoli

.@homesforallmass has put forth an enabling act to stabilize rents that would lift the ban on rent control, and allow communities to adopt a 5% cap on rent increases and protections against no-fault evictions. @senjehlen @SamvMontano malegislature.gov/Bills/193/HD39…

@homesforallmass @senjehlen @SamvMontano We also have an anti-foreclosure bill to protect small homeowners throughout MA. Throughout our history (see: 2008 financial crisis) working-class homeowners joined forces w/ tenants against corporate greed. CALL YOUR REPS TO SUPPORT THESE BILLS☎️ #MaPoli: homesforallmass.org/act/email/