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Mar 29

We are saddened to hear of the passing of our friend and comrade Mel King. Mel was a man of action. He was a community organizer through and through. He fought the system from a place of deep love of his community. He was born in and fought displacement in the South End. (🧵)

He deeply valued the value of education as liberation, and he taught and fought everywhere he went. He was a teacher, a mentor, a friend, and a fighter for the people of Boston. Our community will deeply miss Mel.

Mel was a close part of the City Life community. The last time Mel King did civil disobedience was at a City Life action in 2013. Alongside fellow ancestor Jim Brooks, Mel sat on the steps of the courthouse demanding the state “HALT NO FALT EVICTIONS.” #bospoli #mapoli

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Mar 28

Today in Chelsea we stood w/ families of Groma Properties Tenant Assoc ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏿

Suneyda, who has a small daughter + husband living w/ her in apt, says Groma raised rent by HUNDREDS despite persistent leaks, rodents— and pushed out neighbors for bringing up issue of LEAD 🤯#MaPoli

Suneyda’s friend + upstairs neighbor, who is also a mom, complained about exposure to lead — her young daughters kept getting sick. Tenants say Groma intimidated & evicted the family. #MaPoli

Suneyda & her family have themselves been living with mice, cockroaches, & more… and yet Groma raised rents by hundreds of dollars 🫠#RentControlMA #ControlDeRenta

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Mar 28

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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….

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@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...

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@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.

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Mar 27

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*español abajo* This past weekend CLVU and @BTU66, along with so many other local orgs and families, came out to the annual Family2Family conference💚🍎 #BosPoli #MaPoli

CLVU is determined to connect with families and teacher/educator unions in our public school systems, since education justice is deeply connected to housing justice! 🤝 #MaPoli

‼️🍎 If you're a teacher in Greater Boston area, DM us your email & we’ll send you general help flyers to share with students + families resisting rent increases & unjust housing situations. DM us your email, and let’s build the movement for stability at home & in school! #MaPoli

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Mar 27

*español abajo* Come out Tuesday in solidarity with the 2 LatinX families from the Clark Ave tenants associations (TA) organizing against their unfair evictions and sneaky rent increases from Groma Properties. The TA is determined to negotiate for better conditions

and a fair contract renewal with affordable rent increases. Unfortunately, these families unknowingly signed a lease with a hold over a sneaky term landlords use to have tenants sign and agree to a future rent increase, along with stripping some tenants' rights.

So make sure YOU didn’t sign a lease with a hold over clause and always look for that in the future. We need you Tuesday morning for court solidarity to give these families strength, and if you want to learn more about your tenant rights, come to the rally and join our

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Mar 26

*español abajo*The number of evictions filed weekly in Boston is up nearly 75% from last year. We need STRONG tenant protections. Sadly, we’re seeing MA ROLLBACK on tenant protections, like trying to end Chapter 257 at the end of this month & trying to roll back & LOWER

financial support from statewide rental relief applications to rates LOWER than pre-pandemic times even though the housing crisis is worse. For those who don’t know, chapter 257 PREVENTS judges from deciding on an eviction case while the tenant has a statewide rental relief

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application in process. This meant that NO eviction decision was made until your rental relief application was either approved or rejected, which protected MANY people from losing their homes. @MassGovernor @maura_healey, we NEED these tenant protections extended & expanded,

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