Housing
Landlords and developers are organizing to oppose a grassroots ballot measure for statewide rent control, and they’re counting on elected officials to help them...
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The ballot initiative would allow single-family homes to be built on residential lots as small as 5,000 square feet. Developers and some progressive groups...
Housing
Last month, Massachusetts' highest court tossed out a rent-control ballot measure. But tenant organizers say the setback won't stop their work fighting against climbing...
Housing
To avoid a grueling fight before November, the campaign for rent stabilization has worked on compromise legislation with developers and other opponents of the...
Housing
Citywide tenants unions are rare. But they’re starting to pop up nationwide, including in Easthampton, where neighbors are building power by fighting for cheaper...
Health
“The Holyoke Fire Department would like to have sprinklers in all our buildings, but we are bound by the building code and the law,”...
Housing
The meetings have been ongoing for years, but a recent Facebook post about them has prompted some to question the cozy relationship between police...
Housing
Members of the West Street Tenants Association are organizing to pressure their wealthy landlord: Smith College.
Housing
New efforts have taken aim at specific local landlords, like Smith College, and at state law itself.
Housing
After several tense meetings, the commission named financiers of racist local real estate deeds, including Smith College and numerous local banks, with little fanfare.
Housing
Some Northampton deeds still contain language forbidding sales to people of color. But will the city's reparations commission name the organizations that were complicit...
Housing
Vocal complaints played a role in Northampton's eviction of Moose Camp earlier this month. The campers now hope their new spots will draw less...