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HOUSING

LETTERS
Developers will seek changes for a mixed-use residential, retail, and business project at the MBTA's Riverside station that was approved by Newton's City Council last year. (Rendering revised January 2021)
Special election in Newton brings housing battle to the fore
Neighborhoods all over Newton, not just Nonantum, are opposed to over-development.

EDITORIAL
Hampden County Deputy Sheriff Lieutenant Michael Goldberg talks to an apartment building’s resident while serving eviction notices, in Springfield, Dec. 16, 2020. A nationwide eviction moratorium has postponed an eviction crisis, but only direct financial aid to tenants will avert it.
A wave of evictions is not inevitable. It’s a policy choice.
The solution to the looming eviction crisis is as simple as giving renters cash.

LETTERS
There has been a call to save some 250 mature trees slated to be cut down to make way for the redevelopment of the Bunker Hill public housing development in Charlestown.
Trees in the path of public housing in Charlestown: ‘false choice’ or real trade-off?
The Charlestown Resident Alliance has been at the table for more than four years and is acutely familiar with the complex details and challenges of this project.

LETTERS
A woman walks past stones and mud debris on Cambridge Street at the corner of Anderson Street in October 2019 after a broken water pipe in the basement of a brownstone apartment building collapsed the sidewalk and sent thousands of gallons of water down the street.
One underlying problem with basement apartments
An abnormally high tide, exceptional rainfall, or a burst water main all spell disaster for basement apartments.

Marcela García
A road marking is painted with the colors of the Italian flag in Nonantum on Chapel Street near Watertown Street in Newton.
A proxy culture war in Newton
As a special election for two vacant council seats nears in Newton, an alleged conspiracy is afoot to terminate Santa.

John Yazwinski
Beds fill a homeless shelter inside the San Diego Convention Center, Aug. 11, 2020.
Underutilized hotels can help curtail homelessness
Converting empty hotels into housing is a game-changer, as well as a proactive and cost-effective approach to health care.

Katherine Gergen Barnett and Megan Sandel
Policy makers and advocates must prolong the national moratorium on evictions until at least next fall.
For good health outcomes, we need good housing incomes
Good housing can make a world of difference in a person’s health, just as a lack of housing can be devastating.

LETTERS
Jeffrey Sanchez (left) and Nika Elugardo, then candidates for the 15th Suffolk state representative election, shake hands in a candidates forum at the First Baptist Church, in Jamaica Plain, July 9, 2018.
A ‘progressive’ by any other name
Readers respond to Joan Vennochi's Dec. 29 column about the contest for the office of Mass. speaker of the House.

EDITORIAL
Highland Terrace, on Gerrish Ave., a newer affordable housing development in Chelsea.
Boston is setting an example on fair housing. Will other communities follow?
The City of Boston has taken steps to reverse patterns of housing discrimination, but its initiatives won’t be enough without regional support.

LETTERS
Housing activists held a rally in Central Square in East Boston in December 2019.
It’s incumbent on all of us to open our communities to affordable housing
"We have a history of restrictive and discriminatory local zoning that drives up home prices and rents, limits opportunity, and perpetuates segregation."