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Docket #1341 - Hearing on gentrification and displacement in Roxbury
A
You
ain't
supposed
to
have
guns
pulled
on
you,
but
this
victory
program,
but
they
put
them
home
to
peep
out
of
the
storage
and
I
got
the
same
one
and
on
top
of
it,
I
had
to
see
Tammy
the
director
when
I
go
to
the
homeless
homeless,
clinic
to
try
to
get
my
medicine
that
she
is,
they
need
to
fire
her
being.
They
don't
deserve
this
kind
of
stuff,
I'm
61
years
old,
I
couldn't
even
have
my
grandkids.
A
C
If
I
was
able
to
run
up
here,
I
would
have
ran
up
here
because
I
so
bad
I
wanted
to
get
up
here
to
be
able
to
speak.
I'm
listening
and
I
hear
what
they
saying.
I
hear
what
miss
Colombia,
which
is
sitting
and
Cara's
gotta,
say
which
miss
Gloria
experience
is
what
one
have
done.
That's
nothing
watch
once
suffer
go
through
the
suffering
watch
one
be
drama
dragged
through
the
courts
to
represent
themselves
to
save
a
roof
over
their
heads.
C
It
had
caused
this
whatever
you
call
this
I
don't
know
when
it
started,
but
people
keep
telling
me
that's
been
going
on
for
years.
I
said
well,
I
been
where
I
been
then
I
thought
about
it.
1999
I
lost
my
mother
behind
the
same
thing
and
it's
repeating
itself
I'm
on
my
fourth
eviction.
Two
evictions
in
the
SJC
Court
I
fought
for
two
whole
years
back
and
forth.
C
So
sometimes
that
night
I
had
to
stay
up
all
night,
trying
to
calm
down
one
who's,
ready
to
take
their
lives
over
a
roof
over
their
heads
and
once
not
caring,
you
can
tell
us
you
can
send
us,
we
can
bang
on
all
doors
and
every
door
that
we
sent
to
clothes.
We're
never
opened
so
I
just
want
to
make
room.
I
just
want
to
state
this
yeah.
This
is
just
the
beginning,
but
we
were
no
longer
gonna
sit
down
on
this
anymore.
C
C
B
D
E
D
Think
50
signatures
for
her
and
we
got
on
the
board
I've
seen
her
help
many
people
in
the
community
and
far
as
a
landlord.
He
lives
on
home.
Well,
he
have
a
place
on
Julian
Street.
It's
a
drug-infested
people
get
robbed
all
kind
of
stuff
wrong
area,
there's
no
sure
woman
right
here,
mr.
gun,
for
that
man
he
went,
he
wasn't
on
his
premises.
D
She
made
sure
people
don't
smoke,
cry
shoot
dope,
dude,
epinoia,
all
kind
of
stuff
in
that
nature
and
then
all
of
a
sudden,
his
eye
to
change
towards
her
I'm,
seeing
him
home
mentally
torment
this
woman,
because
she
had
a
disability,
hi,
auntie
and
I.
Let
me
tell
you
what
happened
she
called
I
know:
II
got
two
minutes.
Let
me
make
it
strong.
She
called
me
one
day
she
said
Calvin
get
to
my
house.
I
really
need
you.
I
runs
down
there.
D
Let
me
tell
what
I
saw
I've
seen
her
constable
I
seen
the
police
I
think
was
a
sergeant
or
supervisor
there
and
the
landlord
mr.
Stewart's
in
tears,
so
I
ran
to
her
I
said
Belinda.
What's
going
on
here,
she
said
Calvin.
She
said:
I
went
to
housing
court
yesterday.
The
judge
both
review
my
case.
This
landlord
don't
supposed
to
be
on
my
premises
right
now.
Finally,
victim
II,
so
I
said
well:
did
he
showing
any
paperwork?
She
said
he
just
showed
me
a
piece
of
paper,
but
that
was
it.
D
I
said
what
the
courts
say.
She
said:
I
haven't
called
the
court,
so
I
suggested
her.
They
called
the
court
talked
to
her
fine.
What's
going
on,
she
called
down
the
clerk's
office,
the
clerk
looked
at
a
case
and
even
said
this
guy
shouldn't
be
doing
what
he's
doing.
He
wouldn't
talk
to
miss
Stewart.
He
wouldn't
take
her
phone
and
talk
to
the
clerk,
so
the
clerk
asked
me
to
advocate
for
miss
Stewart
I,
think
it
was
Bruce
Ephron
landlord.
So
anyway,
I
can't
afford
to
mr.
Bruce
Efron.
He
told
a
lady.
She
do
it.
D
She
got
to
do
he's
gonna
do
what
he
got
to
do
so
at
that
point
in
time
he
was
walking
away
from
the
phone,
so
she
yelled
doll.
She
said,
sir
I'm
gonna
get
your
verbal
order
to
lead
this
woman
premises
alone.
She's
gonna
come
down
the
court
I'm
gonna
give
her
the
proper
documentation
so
leave
it
alone.
I
gave
a
catfish,
she
went
in
the
cab,
I
went
to
stand
by
her
premises
and
they
they
made
me
feel
unwelcome.
I
wanted
only
thing.
D
I
was
trying
to
do
it,
be
a
brother
sticking
up
for
sisters,
I
seen
just
a
I'm
just
filing
wrong
and
I,
even
seeing
as
I
can
recall,
I'm
trying
to
make
this
very
quickly.
I
know:
loppy
wanna
get
their
voices
heard,
but
I
seen
a
constable
assault.
This
woman,
I,
seen
a
police
officer,
saw
this
woman
and
this
woman
still
standing
be
playing
with
no
justice
by
eviction.
Thank.
B
B
G
B
I
I
Where
we
live
is
a
very
prime
area
where
we
live
because
the
coast
of
Franklin
Park,
you
know
it's
Elm,
Hill,
Abbott,
seabird
Street,
it's
Nazy,
Street,
it's
HOT
registry
is
Brooklyn
and
all
these
streets
are
connected
with
our
order.
Is
our
Peabody
used
to
be
owned
by
Bismarck,
but
that
at
that
time
a
lot
of
things
was
happening,
but
it's
staying
on
the
subject.
Thank
you,
women.
Staying
on
the
subject,
we
need
to
keep
this
apartment.
These
buildings
that
we
live
in,
that
are
section
8
subsidized
buildings.
I
We
need
to
keep
them
affordable
and
it's
important
to
keep
the
affordability
okay,
so
we
may
be
protected
for
40
years,
but
after
40
years,
then
what
but
I'm
seeing
in
my
area
where
I
live,
a
lot
of
people
are
moving
in
and
when
they're
moving
in
from
outside
these
buildings
are
becoming.
Condominiums
condominium
is
on
the
rise.
It's
all
hard
churches,
it
humboldt
ab.
It's
where
they
on
brooke
ledge
condominiums
are
being
condominiums
are
coming.
I
There
are
no
humble
air
that
being
built
and
we're
being
pushed
out,
but
we
need
to
remain
I've
been
living
in
this
area.
I'm
60
years
old,
I've
been
living
in
this
air.
My
mother
brought
me
here:
I
was
three
okay,
so
I've
been
here
fifty-seven
years,
but
will
being
slowly
pushed
out
and
we
need
to
be
protected
and
stay
and
remain
protected.
Thank
you
very
much
and
God
bless
all
y'all
pay
here,
even
a
community.
Thank
you
for
letting
us
bake.
H
J
You
go
ahead.
No
I
was
just
looking
at
Michael
trying
to
figure
out
which
development
that
is.
It
expires
in
2020
for
what
okay,
so
we'll
look
into
that
and
contact
the
owner.
I
mean,
like
I
mentioned
in
my
remarks
as
much
as
we're
trying
to
create
new
we've
always
got
to
be
looking
in
the
rearview
mirror
and
make
sure
that
we
preserve
that
affordable
housing
that
we
have.
We
won't
get
it
back,
so
we
absolutely
need
to
make
sure
it's
affordable
in
perpetuity.
B
K
Wanted
to
briefly
respond
to
some
of
the
increases
about
Lennox
Camden.
First
and
foremost,
we've
had
well
over
a
dozen
meetings
in
that
community
with
the
residents
one.
As
recently
as
a
few
weeks
ago,
we
continue
to
meet
with
the
residents
and
the
tenant
task
force
out
there
to
make
sure
that
we
are
providing
them
with
accurate
information.
K
The
speaker
was
absolutely
correct.
The
conditions
at
Lennox
candor,
my
rendus,
which
is
precisely
why
we're
doing
what
we're
doing
we
will
be
investing
about
a
hundred
and
twenty
one
hundred
and
thirty
thousand
dollars
in
each
and
every
one
of
the
357
deeply
affordable
public
housing
units
in
that
community.
We
will
begin
the
work
on
the
Camden
side
early
next
year
in
2019.
K
Nobody
will
be
required
to
move
off-site,
although
we'll
be
renovating
bathrooms
kitchens
and
upgrading
the
interior
of
the
unit.
So
obviously
people
can't
live
there.
While
we're
doing
that
kind
of
rehabilitation.
We
will
relocate
people
temporarily
in
a
hotel
units
on
the
site
and
then
pay
for
that
relocation
and
then
move
them
back.
They
will
stay.
They
will
be
able
to
move
back
to
the
unit
that
they
came
from
if
they
are
appropriately
sized
for
their
families.
K
But
we
have
a
commitment
to
making
sure
everybody
there
stays
on
site
even
during
the
renovation
and
can
move
back
to
theirs
their
specific
unit
if
they're
appropriately
housed
the
the
357
units
there
that
are
there
now
will
continue
to
be
deeply
affordable.
Folks
will
continue
to
pay
30%
of
their
income
for
rent,
as
they
do
now
is
establish
by
federal
law.
They
will
continue
to
have
all
of
the
appropriate
grievance
procedures
that
they
have
now
based
on
federal
law.
K
So,
in
my
view,
what
we're
doing
there
is
upgrading
a
community,
that's
in
a
bad
badly
in
need
of
investment,
and
we
will
do
that
and
we'll
preserve
those
units
for
existing
residents
and
for
future
residents
of
Roxbury
that
need
deeply
affordable,
housing
and
I'll
leave
a
card
and
I'll
speak
with
the
woman
I,
don't
know
where
she
went
so
that
we
can,
where
I'll
give
you
my
card,
we've
met
before
it
meetings.
I'll
give
her
my
card
and
we'll
be
able
to
talk
to
her
on
an
individual.
H
Basis,
thank
you.
Can
any
of
you
talk
about
how
many
units
in
Boston,
particularly
in
Roxbury,
we're
looking
at
in
terms
of
expiring
use
like
what
are
we
in
danger
of
losing
in
terms
of
our
housing
stock
and
keeping
it
affordable,
and
then
what
actions,
because
we
want
to
make
sure
that
this
is
focused
on
solutions
moving
forward?
What
actions
do
we
need
to
take
to
make
sure
that
they
stay
affordable,
I.
J
L
B
B
Are
three
here:
okay,
because
I'm
gonna
keep
going
to
the
list,
and
so
we
have
three
standing
at
the
mic:
hello,
everyone.
My
name
is
Karina
Andrews,
mrs.
Andrews.
Before
you
start,
I'm
gonna
call
up
another
two
people
after
no
please
stay
there.
I'm
gonna
make
sure
I
have
three
people
there,
so
I
have
MS,
but
Danielle
mandola
and
Rahul
Burke
are
are
not
here,
I'm,
just
calling
your
name
one.
Last
time,
cuz
I'm
gonna,
keep
moving
on
this
list.
I
also
have
a
Cheryl,
Spence
and
Mark
Dresden.
M
Everyone,
my
name,
is
Corinna
Andrews
I,
also
like
to
thank
council
agenting
for
coming
to
one
of
our
meeting
attendance
meetings
at
this
time.
I'm
a
stabilization
worker
in
the
Boston
area,
I
deal
with
clients
who
were
in
shelter
program
start
that
I
moved
into
the
apartments,
and
my
job
is
to
make
sure
that
they
stay
permanently
housed.
Okay.
So
it's
just
going
to
be
brief.
M
I
just
want
you
to
take
into
consideration
that
the
two
barriers
that
the
clients
are
now
having
the
first
one
is
the
rent
that
is
being
increased
every
other
year
from
landlords,
and
the
second
thing
is
background
checks
and
credit
checks
that
it's
making
it
very
difficult
for
some
people,
you
know,
have
bad
credits,
so
that
means
you're
unable
to
houst
because
of
bad
credits
like
you
during
one
of
your
meetings
to
take
that
into
consideration,
and
that's
it.
Thank
you
very
much.
N
Miss
Bence
charles
spends
thirty
three
Montrose
Street
in
Roxbury.
What
I'm
going
to
be
speaking
about
is
a
case
study
on
upzoning
and
the
lack
of
the
voice
of
the
abutters
to
be
heard
in
front
of
the
CBA
during
the
appeal
process.
So
this
is
regarding
33
Copeland
Street.
The
plan
submitted
by
the
developer
for
the
vacant
parcel
needed
significant
zoning
relief
consisting
of
nine
variants,
because
the
plan
is
out
of
scale
with
the
existing
neighborhood.
N
The
Moreland
Street
historic
district
is
a
free
family
district,
but
the
project
is
eight
units
making
the
project
overcrowded
on
the
lot
and
removing
most
of
the
trees.
Multi-Family
homes
like
this
are
forbidden
use
in
Moreland,
Street,
historic
district.
When
the
developer
put
what
the
property,
it
consisted
of
two
lots
that
were
combined
the
Copeland
Street
parcel,
has
no
address
in
the
city
system
and
does
not
meet
the
minimum
frontage
requirements
on
a
public
street
to
approve
design
submitted
by
the
developer.
It
would
mean
allowing
eight
units
to
be
built
behind
someone
else's
home.
N
That's
like
putting
a
home
in
the
middle
of
a
baseball
diamond
is
basically
what
it
is.
We
also
send
photos
to
the
city,
so
they
could
see
why
the
abutters
were
concerned,
the
BPD
a
disapproved
these
designs
plans
for
a
multi-family
home,
which
should
have
been
it
should
have
ended
there,
but
instead
of
grant
of
granting
the
abutters
their
request
for
a
deferral
of
the
hearing,
the
CBA
approved
a
plan
for
luxury
condos.
The
developer
has
said
that
the
selling
price
will
be
between
600
to
700
thousand
dollars.
N
Many
residents
living
around
a
property
could
be
displaced.
As
a
result,
a
more
reasonable
design
was
needed
here,
one
that
takes
into
account
the
existing
neighborhood
councillors.
Flower,
tea
and
woo
both
oppose
the
project
supporting
the
abutters
and
asking
for
a
deferral.
One.
Member
of
the
CBA
opposed
17
abutters
signed
a
letter
in
opposition
three
neighborhood
associations:
nine
Street,
Neighborhood,
Association,
Alaska,
Penn,
Street
and
Roxbury
path
forward.
Association
all
opposed
the
project
asking
for
more
time
to
resolve
a
butter
concerns.
All
of
our
letters
are
ignored
or
not
acknowledged.
N
No
matter,
no
material
changes
were
ever
made
by
the
developer.
It
was
a
process
without
support
for
residents,
because
the
project
kept
moving
forward.
It
will
always
be
a
process
without
accountability
unless
the
district
7
counselor
supports
community
residents,
the
Zoning
Board
of
appeal
ignored
a
butters
call
to
defer
the
project
and
flagrantly
ignore
community
concerns.
N
This
proposal
flies
in
the
face
of
the
type
of
neighborhood
we
are
trying
to
retain
in
Roxbury
one
where
the
owner
of
a
single
condominium,
Partin
apartment,
is
treated
with
the
same
fairness
and
respect
given
to
a
developer
controlling
many
properties.
The
developers
stated
publicly
at
one
more
than
one
meeting
his
plans
to
make
extensive
repairs
to
a
retaining
wall,
which
runs
along
a
section
of
the
property,
the
retaining.
B
N
B
O
P
Thank
you
very
much
counselors.
It's
a
pleasure
to
see
you
thank
you
for
holding
this
hearing
on
this
extraordinarily
important
issue.
For
the
record.
My
name
is
Mark
Grayson
I'm,
a
resident
of
Roslindale,
where
I've
lived
for
the
last
47
years,
I'm.
Also
the
executive
director
of
the
regional
planning
agency
for
Greater
Boston,
which
is
the
metropolitan
area
planning
council
MAPC,
because
time
is
short
I'm
only
going
to
hit
a
few
points.
We
have
a
very
substantial
housing
practice
at
MAPC.
P
P
P
Everyone
needs
to
build
additional
housing
and
especially
affordable
housing.
Every
neighborhood
in
Boston,
every
city
in
town,
in
the
inner
core,
every
suburb
throughout
the
Greater
Boston
region.
Boston
can't
do
it
alone;
no
one
can
do
it
alone.
We
need
to
do
it
regionally.
That's
why
we
were
very
pleased
at
the
Metro
mayor's
coalition,
including
mayor
Walsh,
recently
agreed
to
commit
themselves
to
a
hundred
and
eighty
five
thousand
units
of
production
between
2015
and
2030,
but
I
won't
be
satisfied
with
that
until
every
community
makes
a
local
commitment.
P
Secondly,
there
are
many
important
pieces
of
legislation
elation
on
the
hill
on
this
issue,
but
I
think
one
of
the
most
important
ones
is
the
right
of
counsel
for
eviction
proceedings
that
has
been
shown
to
have
a
real,
meaningful
impact
on
whether
people
lose
their
homes,
and
so
we
all
have
to
work
on
that
and
then
I
would
end
by
saying
something
that
councillor
Flaherty
said
almost
took
the
words
right
out
of
my
mouth.
We
in
this
state
need
an
adult
conversation
on
rent
control,
eviction,
control
and
condominium
conversion
control.
P
I
was
a
member
of
the
legislature
when
the
referendum
took
place
that
stripped
us
of
that,
whatever
false
difficulties
or
limitations
there
may
have
been
in
that
system.
We
are
trying
to
fight
this
housing
crisis
with
the
regulatory
hand
tied
behind
our
backs
and
to
do
it
by
production
alone.
We
must
produce,
but
it's
not
sufficient.
Thank
you
very
much.
Oh.
G
J
I,
just
I
just
want
to
thank
thank
Mark
for
his
work,
so
I
just
want
to
get
back
to
you
on
the
expiring
use
issue
counselor,
if
that's
still
or
I,
can
give
you
a
full
report
to
on
the
units,
but
just
generally
there's
over
10,000,
affordable
units
in
roxbury
8,000
of
those
are
privately
owned.
So
we
always
watch
those
they're
not
publicly
owned.
J
3,200
are
preserved
for
very,
very
long
periods
of
time
past
ten,
twenty
thirty
sixty
six
right
now
are
at
elevated
risk.
So
what
I
think
I
need
to
do
is
give
the
council
and
anyone
who
wants
that
report.
You
know
more
detailed
information
about
the
projects
who
the
owners
are
their
affordability
terms
and
I'll
commit
to
doing
that
this
week.
H
And
just
quickly,
you
heard
the
last
speaker
offer
some
concrete
solutions
around
some
of
the
things
to
watch.
One
thing
that
he
said
and
I've
heard
people
in
the
administration.
A
Boston
can't
do
it
alone
that
we've
got
to
make
sure
that
other
towns
do
their
share
in
terms
of
affordable
housing
and
they
and
they
haven't
been.
H
How
do
we
do
that,
though,
and
make
sure
that,
as
new
people
are
flooding
into
Boston,
that
they
don't
look
like
the
residents
who
are
already
in
our
community,
which
is
very
diverse
and
that
that
housing
out
in
the
suburbs
or
surrounding
towns
is
where
folks
from
Roxbury
end
up
getting
pushed
out?
So
if
just
briefly
I
know,
you
all
have
to
go
and
I
really
appreciate
your
flexibility.
J
I'm,
if
you
can
speak
to
that
piece,
yes,
no
I,
just
I,
just
want
folks
to
know
that
when
we
do
build
new,
affordable
housing
in
the
city,
Boston
residents,
we
can't
give
neighborhood
preference,
but
Boston
residents
do
get
preference
for
those
units
which
is
really
important
because,
as
others
I
agree
as
other
cities
and
towns,
don't
build,
affordable
housing.
More
and
more
people
are
coming
to
Boston
and
it's
you
know,
no
fault
of
their
own
they're,
desperate
also
to
house
their
families.
J
Right
now
in
our
individual
shelters
between
50
and
60
percent
of
the
individuals
coming
into
shelter,
because
they're
seeking
affordable
housing
and
services
are
from
outside
of
Boston,
so
we
really
really
do
need
other
cities
and
towns
to
step
up
and
create.
At
least
you
know,
bus
is
about
20
percent,
affordable
overall
Roxbury
is
50,
but
you
know
there
are
cities
and
towns
that
have
two
and
three
percent,
and
it's
not
right.
B
A
B
Have
50
people
signed
up
to
speak,
who
have
not
been
heard
at
all
50
people,
plus
this
I'm,
so
sorry
I'm,
going
to
if
you're
gonna
defer
your
time,
I'm
gonna
defer
to
someone
who
signed
up
to
speak?
Who
has
not
spoken
yet
so
if
Lauren
Thompson,
if
you're
going
to
move
on
your
time,
then
fine
I
will
call
Kimberly
Isles
is
here
or
not?
Lyle's
I
have
IELTS
iy
le
s.
B
Q
B
R
R
R
Everyone
knows
that
right
that
Boston
needs
more
housing,
but
Boston's
need
for
housing
should
not
and
will
not
continue
to
come
at
the
disparate
expense
of
Roxbury
x'
residents
in
the
country.
At
the
current
pace
of
predatory
and
exclusionary
development
that
prioritizes
the
desires
of
newer,
wealthier
and,
quite
frankly,
whiter
residents
over
the
needs
of
blacker,
lessor
moneyed,
lesser
privilege,
folks,
who
have
made
Roxbury
a
place
that
people
would
want
to
flock
to
well.
R
If
this
continues,
it
poses
a
great
threat
to
the
essence
of
the
Roxbury
community,
and
we
know
what
is
happening
to
us
two
months
ago.
One
of
my
younger
cousins
moved
to
Taunton.
She
and
her
spouse
could
no
longer
afford
to
live
here
with
their
young
child.
Earlier
this
year,
another
cousin,
a
single
mother,
moved
to
go,
live
in
an
affordable
unit
in
Avon
and
before
her,
yet
another
cousin
moved
to
Randolph.
Where
is
the
housing
for
them?
R
Where
is
the
housing
that
allows
Roxbury
zone
to
remain
in
Roxbury
rocks
Berry's
young
people
cannot
benefit
from
the
gains,
are
for
mothers
and
for
fathers
and
doors
so
much
to
obtain.
For
us,
our
parents,
grandparents
and
great-grandparents
survived
redlining
white
flight,
busing,
disinvestment
urban
renewal
and
other
attacks
to
remain
in
the
community
and
to
make
a
place
for
us
here
and
that
is
being
threatened
by
every
variance
given
despite
strong
resident
opposition,
it
is
being
threatened
by
every
micro
unit
and
every
studio
apartment
being
shoved
down
our
throats.
R
That
will
be
leased
for
as
much
as
$3,000
a
month.
Here
are
a
few
ways
you
can
support.
Roxbury
young
people
and
building
futures
here
support
and
help
to
implement
a
moratorium
on
the
disposition
of
public
land
in
Roxbury,
listen
to
the
community
to
hear,
understand
and
apply
what
we're
saying
and
not
just
because
you're
or
when
you're
running
for
election.
We
have
said
we
want
a
moratorium.
Please
do
not
dismiss
us,
stop
ignoring
abutters
and,
more
importantly,
stop
being
duplicitous.
Take
legislative
action
to
rescind
questionable
variances
stop
up.
R
B
G
Good
evening
city
councilor,
Janie
city
officials,
developers,
constituents
of
Roxbury
I
am
Miss
Govan,
a
college
graduate
medical
office,
professional
and
a
single
mother
of
two
I
lived
all
over
the
city
of
Boston
Greater
Boston
area
and
Metro
West
I
lived
in
other
parts
of
the
country
as
well,
but
Roxbury
is
my
home
and
I
am
native
to
this
area.
Roxbury
raised
me:
I
have
many
good
times
growing
up,
remember:
block
parties
from
Lennox
Street
to
West
Newton
Street,
where
my
grandmother
used
to
live
as
a
young
girl,
I
felt,
welcome
and
safe.
G
That's
all
a
sense
of
community.
We
had
back
then
still
exists
within
the
inner
city
Roxbury.
Today,
during
the
11
years,
I
lived
away
from
Boston
I
used
to
dream
about
the
elevated
orange
line
and
Tremont
Street
vividly
I
missed
the
sense
of
community
I
had
and
how
close
everything
was.
I
used
to
live
in
South
Carolina
for
about
a
good
four
years,
and
everybody
lived.
G
Ourself
knows
that
the
corner
store
is
not
at
the
corner
is
five
miles
down
the
road
in
early
2000
I
made
it
back
to
my
beloved
Roxbury
and
I
live
in
Lennox
Street,
with
my
daughters,
since
arriving
back,
I've
been
envisioning
and
building
a
future
here
for
them,
but
I
can't
help
to
feel
uneasy,
because
I
don't
feel
generational.
Security
is
something
that
I
can
give
them
like.
G
I
once
had
worried
that
in
a
few
years,
because
of
all
the
developments
coming
into
Roxbury
and
the
rising
cost
of
rent
that
come
along
with
it,
I
will
be
priced
out.
I
don't
want
to
leave
Roxbury
now,
I,
really
love
to
plant
my
roots
and
have
a
positive
influence
and
a
positive
contribution
to
my
community.
Generational
security
should
be
for
all
everyone
in
here.
Not
just
a
select
few
I
would
be
devastated,
I
could
live
here
in
Roxbury,
and
it
matters
to
me
that
there
was
a
future
for
my
daughter's
in
Roxbury.
G
Specifically,
I
would
like
for
them
to
have
choices
and
opportunities
like
I,
had
to
go
anywhere
in
the
world
as
they
may
want,
but
know
that
they
can
and
will
be
able
to
call
one
place
home,
which
is
Roxbury
Massachusetts
from
growing
up
here
in
the
80s,
to
seeing
what
the
City
of
Boston
has
become.
Now
from
me,
traveling
to
Trinidad
and
for
me,
living
down
south
I
would
love
to
know
that
I
would
feel
that
I
am
a
part
of
the
growth
of
this
city
and
not
shut
out
from
it.
Thank
you.
S
So
I'm
well
justice
reclaimed,
Roxbury
new
organizer,
40
riders,
Union
and
we
don't
feel
like
y'all
are
hearing
us,
especially
when
we're
saying
that
I'm
we
have
other
people
that
are
speaking
for
us
and
you're,
not
even
letting
them
speak.
So
you
know
saying
we
kind
of
feel
a
little
bit
disrespected
over
here.
You
know
saying
and
you
in
our
neighborhood
and
don't
forget
that
you
in
our
neighborhood,
so
it's
like,
we
feel
as
though
we're
taking
ownership
of
our
neighborhood
and
the
people
that
are
coming
in
are
literally
sitting
there
telling
us.
S
You
can't
speak
when
it
is
our
neighborhood
alright.
So
this
is
the
this
is
like
the
new
white
trains
at
the
highway
system
coming
through
cuz
I'm
before
we
had
to
fight
with
the
highways
and
everything
like
that
I'm
saying.
Historically,
those
are
our
housing
situation.
If
you
go
to
on
Thursday,
you
go
to
housing
court,
it
is
packed
for
the
people
that
look
like
me.
Yet
you
bring
in
people
in
who
don't
look
like
me.
They
are
willing
to
pay
that
capital.
S
So
if
it's
like
money
rules,
no,
so
basically
what
you're
telling
us
is
that
you're
value
us.
You
value
that
money,
that's
coming
in
no
saying
so.
What
we're
seeing
is
you
talk
about
some
of
your
not
really
selling
the
parcels
and
you're
misrepresenting
the
ami
and
also
stuff
I?
Don't
know
anybody's
filled
out
those,
though
those
censuses
like
that
did
speak
about
their
income
and
what-have-you
so
I'm.
These
are
dishonest
a.m.
eyes.
We're
literally
dealing
with,
especially
with
the
transportation
we're
looking
at
the
money
being
deferred
the
places
that
already
have
money.
S
We
have
thirty
thousand
people
a
day
coming
through
Dudley
and
we
are
seeing
no
improvements
whatsoever,
I'm
saying
since
that
L
went
up
and
we
got
the
Silverlight
I
talk
about
some
30-day
equal
or
yes
see.
What
was
that
saying,
equal,
the
better
transit
and
we're
not
getting
none
of
that
it
like
this
is
like
we
feel
like
no
see.
This
is
like
a
low
show,
a
pony
in
dance,
show
and
we're
not
seeing
the
effectiveness.
We
need
y'all
to
step
up
and
do
what
you
actually
say.
B
T
You
counselor
honorable
counselors,
thank
you
for
holding
this
hearing.
Obviously,
gentrification
displacement
are
critical
and
indeed
crisis
issues.
My
name
is
Richards
Wong
I'm,
the
staff
attorney
for
alternatives
for
committee
environment.
We
are
a
long-standing
community
organization
working
for
the
health
and
well-being
of
Roxbury,
normally
as
a
staff
attorney.
T
My
job
is
to
talk
about
evidence
in
the
law,
and
I
will
certainly
do
that
today,
but
I
also
want
to
start
on
a
personal
note,
I'm
an
asian-american
lawyer
working
for
a
person
of
color
that
organization
in
deep
in
the
heart
of
the
african-american
community
of
Roxbury.
It
is
a
pleasure
and
an
honor
to
serve
the
african-american
community
in
Roxbury,
because
this
is
a
community
of
racial
inclusion
and
that
history
and
reality
of
ratio.
Inclusiveness
is
something
that
should
be
cherished
and
preserved
for
generations
to
come.
T
We,
the
current
proposals
to
improve
housing
while
very
well
to
increase
the
quantity
of
housing
in
the
city
are,
of
course
welcome,
but
they
are
insufficient
and
I
want
to
direct
the
council's
attention
to
many
of
the
tools
it
may
have
at
its
disposal
to
to
to
mitigate
and
reduce
a
displacement
of
gentrification
in
our
communities.
First,
some
of
the
evidence
in
August
2016,
professor
James
Jennings
mr.
T
Bob
Tyrell,
who
spoke
earlier
and
other
community
leaders
issued
a
study,
suggested
that
there's
a
disproportionate
displacement
of
african-americans
and
other
racial
minorities
from
the
city
compared
to
comparable
white
households
in
January
2018.
A
study
conducted
by
dr.
Megan
Santo
of
Boston
Medical
Center
and
published
by
the
American
Academy
of
Pediatrics,
indicated
that
the
mental
and
physical
health
of
children
is
adversely
affected
when
there
is
a
family
experience
of
two
or
more
instances
of
displacement
within
one
year
and
adversely
affected
when
of
family
experiences.
T
Undue
financial
strain
due
to
not
being
or
to
make
rent
in
April
2018.
An
economic
modeling
study
conducted
under
the
auspices
of
the
Federal
Reserve
indicated
that
rents
do
not
tend
to
decline
in
urban
centers
such
as
Boston,
despite
modest
increases
in
housing
supply,
so
rents
tend
to
ratchet
up
and
stay
up.
T
In
short,
we
have
at
our
disposal
an
accumulation
of
research
that
underscores
people's
lived
experiences
more
gentrification
and
displacement.
There
is
research
that
tells
us
that
there
is
indeed
a
racial
bias
and
patterns
of
displacement
that
therein
is
indeed
adverse
health
consequences
that
arise
from
displacement
and
that
there
it
is,
in
fact
not
the
case
that
simply
building
new
apartments
will
reduce
financial
stress
and
vulnerability
due
to
evictions
because
of
rising
rents.
T
We
support
the
moratorium
that
many
people
have
mentioned
and
we
support
it
at
a
minimum
for
the
duration
of
time
that
it
takes
for
a
DND
to
complete
its
affirmatively
furthering
fair
housing
study.
This
is
a
study
required
under
HUD
regulations
under
the
Obama
administration.
The
Trump
administration
has
since
then
essentially
discontinued
it,
but
DND
has
committed
to
completing
it
to
its
credit.
T
We
wish
to
note,
however,
that
that's
the
should
be
conducted
with
the
involvement
not
in
isolation
from
be
PDA,
and
should
also
consider
the
implications
of
a
variety
of
interdisciplinary
and
cross-sectional
issues,
including,
for
example,
they
need
to
improve
transit
and
transit
conditions
in
the
sand,
transit
access
in
the
city.
The
city
has
already
taken
an
important
step
by
adopting
the
youth
past
and
we
suggest
that
it
move
its
focus
away
simply
from
traffic
congestion
to
actually
economic
mobility.
T
B
U
My
name
is
Jessica
Pierre
and
I
am
a
local
resident.
I
live
right
off
of
Dudley
Street
and
I
am
also
here
representing
the
Institute
for
Policy
Studies,
located
in
Jamaica
Plain.
This
past
summer,
we
launched
our
luxury
real
estate
project
in
an
effort
to
map
the
trends
at
the
intersection
of
global
hidden
wealth
and
local
real
estate
and
luxury
housing.
U
We
all
know
that
Boston
is
experiencing
a
luxury
real
estate
housing
boom,
but
with
Bostonians
having
an
immediate
household
income
of
fifty
eight
thousand
dollars,
we
at
the
Institute
for
Policy
Studies
decided
to
look
into
these
luxury
condos
to
see
who's
really
buying
Boston.
In
September
we
published
a
study
called
towering
excess,
the
Errol's
of
the
luxury
real
estate
boom
for
Bostonians.
Our
research
began
by
looking
at
12
of
the
highest
price
and
presently
occupied
luxury
housing
developments
constructed
in
Boston
over
the
last
decade.
U
U
Almost
40%
of
the
LLC's
owning
Boston
luxury
properties
have
organized
themselves
in
the
state
of
Delaware
the
premiere
secrecy
jurisdiction
in
the
United
States
among
these
properties
owned
by
LLC's
and
shell
corporations.
A
large
number
of
these
properties
are
purchased,
purchased
through
cash
transactions,
greatly
increasing
the
risk
that
the
properties
involved
are
being
used
to
launder
money
from
criminal
activities
and
speed
capital
flight.
These
red
flag
transactions
demonstrate
how
Boston's
luxury
housing
market
is
playing
a
key
role
in
the
global,
hidden
wealth
infrastructure,
a
shadowy
system,
that's
hiding
wealth
and
masking
ownership.
U
U
Our
recommendations
include
of
real
estate
transfer
tax
Boston,
should
tax
real
estate
transactions
on
properties
selling
over
2.5
million
and
dedicate
revenue
to
the
city's,
affordable
housing
linkage
fund
Boston
can
also
pass
a
vacancy
tax.
This
city
could
discourage
high-end
vacant
properties
by
taxing
buildings
that
stood
empty
for
more
than
six
months
a
year.
We
also
recommend
that
the
city
in
increased
disclosure
measures
Boston,
should
require
property
owners.
As
part
of
recording
deeds
to
disclose
the
actual
human
being,
who
owns
the
property,
we
should
explore
what
we
like
to
call
the
Boston
Public
Library
test.
U
V
Callaghan
I
am
a
resident
of
Roxbury
and
I.
Tell
you,
after
living
and
raising
for
a
family
with
four
children
and
going
I
guess
to
about
twelve
apartments
before
I
finally
bought
my
own
home
I'm
telling
you
we
need
to
have
homeownership,
be
an
option
for
all
way
more
people
than
it
is
now
I'm.
Also
a
pediatrician,
so
I
understand
the
impact
of
residential
instability
on
on
children
and
it's
something
that
that
they
live
with.
It
adjusts
their
genetics,
it's
not
just
that
they
that
they
have
to
move
and
pack
their
things.
V
It
actually
adjusts
their
genetics.
And
if
you
look
at
the
studies,
we
are
generationally
influencing
and
impacting
our
young
people
going
forward
by
not
having
the
kind
of
stability
in
our
neighborhood
that
we
need
that.
We
deserve
I.
Think
that
you
all
for
actually
calling
this
meeting
and
calling
it
at
night
so
that
we
can
get
here
and
so
that
we
can
actually
hear
what
the
people
of
Roxbury
have
to
say.
I
welcome
all
of
the
comments
that
I've
heard
thus
far
from
my
neighbors,
so
I'm
here
also
representing
GPIO,
the
Greater
Boston
interfaith
organization.
V
It's
a
citizen's
power
organization
with
about
43
member
organizations
throughout
Greater,
Boston,
primarily
interfaith
and
churches,
but
some
unions
as
well
and
some
other
CDC's,
and
we
represent
about
35,000
plus
people
among
all
of
our
membership,
and
we
have.
We
have
been
working
really
really
hard
to
address
this
crisis.
Boston
is
the
most
unequal
city
in
the
u.s..
The
top
5
percent
of
earners
averaged
two
hundred
and
sixty
six
thousand
two
hundred
twenty
four
dollars
a
year
compared
to
the
fourteen
thousand
nine
hundred
and
twenty
five
dollars
earned
by
those
in
the
bottom
20%.
V
This
disparity
is
stark.
I'm
along
the
racial
line,
white
households
in
the
Boston
metropolitan
area
have
a
median
net
worth
of
over
250,000,
while
black
households
have
a
median
net
worth
of
just
eight
dollars,
and
if
you,
if
you
combine
the
Latino
community
with
the,
but
if
we're
talking
zero
in
terms
of
overall
net
worth
Boston's
being
transformed
into
a
city
for
the
wealthy,
it's
being
transformed
to
a
city,
we're
not
only
working
poor,
but
even
middle-class
families
can
no
longer
afford
to
live
here.
V
The
actual
workers
of
our
city,
the
workforce,
the
the
folks
that
make
this
city
run
school
teachers
can't
live
here.
The
trends
are
radiating
outward
to
the
whole
metropolitan
area.
With
this
growing
inequality
of
income
and
wealth
comes
a
parallel
in
equality
of
access
influence
and
decision
making
power
so
part
of
what
GPIO
is
doing.
One
of
our
main
things
that
we
want
to
shift
the
power
in
this
place.
V
Now
I
know
that
there's
often
a
conflict
a
little
bit
between
whether
we
have
more
rental
units,
whether
we
push
for
homeownership
I,
respect
every
battle
that
gets
this
place,
affordable,
I
respect
all
of
the
various
ways
that
we
can
do
it,
however,
we're.
We
actually
believe
that
if
we
can
move
folks
from
renting
to
homeownership,
it
actually
will
free
up
more
affordable,
potentially
affordable
rental
units.
V
So
what
we're
trying
to
do
in
GB
is
always
to
focus
our
efforts
on
increasing,
affordable
home
ownership.
Unfortunately,
home
ownership
is
out
of
the
reach
for
way
too
many
and
I.
You
know
this
is
more
diagnosis
as
a
doctor.
I
always
hate
it
when
people
diagnose,
diagnose
and
then
don't
have
a
prescription,
so
I'm
gonna
jump
down,
because
we've
heard
a
lot
of
the
diagnosis
already
that
it's
unaffordable,
but
I
do
want
to
note
that
the
racial
disparity
people
don't
want
to
talk
about
it
frankly,
but
it's
real.
V
The
racial
home
ownership
gap
tells
us
that
44%
of
white
folks
who
are
living
in
their
residence
they
own
that
only
29%
for
black
households
and
16
for
Latino
households.
So
if
you're,
black
or
Latino
achieving
homeownership
is
both
simultaneously
more
difficult
and
more
important.
So
what
can
we
do?
How
much
time
do
I
have
30
seconds?
You're
kidding
me
so
GBI,
oh
and
maja
we've
been
working
along
with
DMD
actually,
and
we
have
a
good
partnership.
V
We've
been
talking
about
this
problem
and
we
have
committed
to
seeing
200
new
homeowners
per
year
over
the
next
five
years,
and
the
idea
would
be
to
buy
down
the
mortgage
interest
rates
to
two
percent,
and
we
are
actually
glad
to
see
that
this
is
in
the
2030
housing
plan.
As
two
of
the
top
action
steps
and
I'm.
V
Sorry
GPIO
had
a
lot
to
do
with
that
conversation
that
was
not
on
the
table
before
and
in
partnership
with
lenders
like
mass
housing
and
mass
housing
partnership,
we
want
to
produce
more
products
like
that
that
people
can
afford.
We
also
want
to.
We
want
to
encourage
the
city
to
go
after
linkage
and
pilot
these
large
universities
that
charge
umpteen
dollars
for
their
students
to
go
there.
They
have
something
called
a
payment
in
lieu
of
taxes.
Let's
get
that
payment
and
put
it
towards
affordable
homeownership.
V
So
as
a
whole,
we
think
that
we're
gonna
need
about
fifty
million
dollars
over
the
course
of
five
years
to
put
a
thousand
folks
into
homes
over
the
next
five
years.
Now
that
doesn't
mean
that
it
all
comes
from
Boston.
We
know
that
I
know
my
times
up.
However,
we
need
to
hit
the
state,
the
state
funding.
Okay,
we
need
to
be
very
aggressive
about
it
and
look
for
new
additional
resources
for
home
ownership.
Maha
we're
working
with
very
closely
and
they're.
V
Gonna
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
some
specifics,
but
I
do
want
you
to
know
that
GB
il
faut
for
three
million
dollars
from
that
big
developer,
that
is
building
on
top
of
the
Back
Bay
Boston
properties.
We
said:
look
you
can't
build
it.
We're
not
gonna
stop
meeting
with
you
until
you
pay
back
to
the
community,
and
so
three
million
dollars
sits
in
some
fun,
that's
going
to
go
towards
home
ownership,
and
that's
because
we
fought
and
I
know
that
you
and
I
can
fight
together
to
make
this
happen.
W
Good
evening,
thank
you
for
holding
this
hearing
and
for
allowing
me
to
speak.
My
name
is
Donna
King
I
am
renting
on
Park
View
street
I
would
love
to
purchase
my
own
home
I
am
representing
Maha,
which
is
the
mass,
affordable,
housing,
Alliance
and
I
will
expand
the
PI
campaign
in
Boston.
My
works
with
a
broad
group
of
Housing
and
community-based
organizations
to
promote
the
production
and
preservation
of
every
type
of
affordable
housing.
W
Focus
within
these
coalition's
is
breaking
down
barriers
for
low
and
moderate
income,
first-time
homebuyers,
and
especially
for
first-generation
homebuyers
we've
been
serving
roughly
900
people
per
year
in
our
home,
our
home
ownership
classes.
We
expect
that
to
grow
to
1300
in
the
coming
year.
In
2017,
74
percent
of
our
class
participation
class
participants
were
people
of
color.
W
W
We
want
to
thank
councillor
Janey
in
councillor
Edwards
and
seven
other
councillors
who
attended
our
expanding
the
PI
campaign
kick
off
in
June,
where
we
all
committed
to
a
goal
of
a
thousand
truly
affordable
home
ownership
opportunities
in
Boston.
My
testimony
today
will
update
you
on
the
different
pieces
of
that
campaign
stand
and
what
we
are
asking
the
council
and
the
mayor
to
partner
with
us
to
do.
We
don't
we
do
not
have
anywhere
close
to
the
amount
of
public
money
that
would
that
it
would
take
to
stop
wide-scale
displacement
in
Roxbury
in
other
neighborhoods.
W
We
want
to
increase
public
sector
investment
and
capture
the
maximum
amount
of
profit
from
luxury
development
and
use
it
for
affordable
housing.
Three
steps
in
the
city
three
steps
the
city
should
take
immediately
versus
linkage.
We
must
move
now
to
increase
fees
on
large-scale
commercial
developments
such
as
office
buildings
and
hotels.
The
current
fee
is
$10
and
81
cents
per
square
foot
for
each
square
foot
above
a
hundred
thousand
square
feet
threshold.
W
We
want
to
increase
it
to
twenty-four
persuade
for
it.
We
very
much
appreciate
counsel,
councillor
Janie
for
coming
to
my
house
last
month
to
discuss
this
proposal
in
the
nexus
study
commissioned
by
the
BPD
a
that
supports
it.
This
change
will
bring
millions
of
additional
dollars
for
affordable
housing
and
job
training
in
Boston,
while
under
and
while
unduly
burdening
developers,
investors
or
prospective
commercial
tenants.
The
study
shows
that
the
projected
impacts
on
these
groups
would
be
extremely
small.
It
would
not
reduce
Boston's
competitiveness
relative
to
nearby
developmental
locations.
W
W
All
new
housing
should
include
higher
percentage
of
affordable
housing
or
larger
cash
payments
to
the
Neighborhood
Housing
Trust
Thank
You
councillor
Janey.
For
talking
about
this,
with
my
heart
constituents
in
district
7
and
for
initiating
a
letter,
a
sign
on
letter
for
the
city
councillors
to
BPA,
director,
Brian
golden
and
the
third
is
Pilate
and
Pilate
is
maha
was
a
part
of
the
pilot
action
group.
W
To
sum
up
quickly.
Let's
move
on
linkage
now:
let's
move
quickly
to
determine
the
maximum
amount
of
level
of
affordable,
achieve
achievable
in
new
construction
and
housing
in
different
neighborhoods
and
get
a
study
done,
that's
transparent
for
all
of
not
only
the
council
but
the
residents
of
Boston
to
know
that,
so
we
can
have
faith
in
it
and
we
strongly
support
the
luxury
tax.
Thank
you.
X
Okay,
Thank
You
counselor,
my
name
is
Michael
Caine
I'm,
a
tenant,
organizer
I
live
at
43,
Glen
Road,
which
is
next
to
Franklin
Park
near
not
too
far
from
the
Shattuck
hospital,
and
we
organized
tennis
I
work
at
the
mass
alliance
of
HUD
tenants.
You've
heard
several
people
refer
to
it
tonight.
Several
tenants
are
here
from
buildings
that
we've
saved
as
affordable
housing
through
tenant,
organizing
overall
we've
saved
about
twelve
and
a
half
thousand
statewide
and
I
added
it
up.
X
We
do
have
a
list
counselor
of
we
got
from
c-dac
of
the
units
in
your
district,
it's
a
little
bigger
than
the
one
that
Sheila
mentioned
and
according
to
see
Dec
in
District
seven.
There
are
fifteen
thousand
seven
hundred
and
thirty
nine
apartments
that
are
subsidized
by
the
federal
government
and
state
government,
but
privately
owned
and
the
contracts
and
those
buildings
they
have
term
limits
and
at
certain
points
they
can
get
out
of
those
contracts.
X
Well,
we
got
those
extended
in
1985
for
twenty
years
and
then
another
twenty
years,
I'm,
sorry,
fifteen
and
another
fifteen
years,
and
then
another
ten
after
that,
but
they're
coming
up
in
about
four
or
five
more
years
we
stopped
Harold
Brown.
His
bank
was
gonna
finance,
the
purchase
of
4,000
apartments
in
Grove
Hall
in
the
80s.
We
stopped
that,
but
here
we
are
forty
years
later
we
said
then,
if
he--if
Brown
had
gotten
hold
of
it
forget
affordable
housing
in
Roxbury.
We
stopped
that.
But
now
here
we
are
again
and
I
got
a
call.
X
Yesterday
from
a
tenant
at
Blue
Mountain-
and
she
said,
the
bank
has
foreclosed
on
the
property
so
that
the
bank
holds
that
we
don't
even
know
what
that
means.
Yet
that's,
but
that's
230
Apartments
right
in
the
middle
of
Grove
Hall,
so
that's
kind
of
one
building.
At
a
time
we're
about
to
save.
We
believe
Concord
house
in
the
South
End
180
apartments
right
on
Tremont
Street,
we're
gonna,
save
172
as
permanently
affordable,
housing,
we're
pretty
sure
and
we're
about
to
say.
X
The
city
of
Boston
has
filed
it,
earth
actuation
say
they
filed
it.
They,
the
mayor,
has
signed
it,
but
they
has
not
lifted
a
finger
to
lobby
at
the
State
House.
In
fact,
they've
undercut
our
lobbying.
It
would
be
nice
if
the
city
would
support
our
lobbying
effort
and
actually
fight
for
this
bill
at
the
Statehouse,
where
it
dies
every
two
years.
But
that's
that's
one
thing
I
wanted
to
talk
about.
X
The
other
is
the
need
for
a
new
low
income
rent
subsidy
to
supplement
the
federal,
a
federal
section,
8
money
we've
been
fighting
it
in
Washington
and
it's
a
losing
battle.
They've
been
cutting
section
eight
about
five
years
ago,
they're
stabilized,
but
it
Trump
wants
to
phase
it
out
over
the
next
ten
years.
So
that
is
a
problem.
That's
thirteen
and
a
half
thousand
apartments
in
Boston,
so
we've
joined
forces
with
peace
groups
to
fight
those
cuts
and
to
say
that
they
should
cut
the
military
budget
intact.
X
X
The
city's
housing
plan.
The
mayor's
housing
plan
calls
for
69
thousand
new
apartments
by
2030
of
those
they
identify,
21,000,
extremely
low
income
people,
people
less
than
30%
of
the
median,
which
is
more
than
half
of
the
renters.
In
Roxbury,
more
than
half
of
the
people
in
Roxbury
make
less
than
25,000
a
year.
That
is,
that
cutoff.
Well,
the
city
of
Boston
is
in
the
last
four
years,
is
built
only
six
hundred
and
thirty
nine
apartments
in
the
mayor's
housing
plan
for
those
families
639
out
of
a
need
they
identify
as
21,000.
X
X
We
researched
it
there's
another
50
100
luxury
condos
that
are
identified
in
the
IPS
report
and
others
that
we
found
that
are
in
the
pipeline,
and
these
are
gonna
sell
for
an
average
of
3
million
dollars,
they're
not
for
us
they're,
not
for
us,
so
I
mean
we'd
be
better
off
without
them
because
they
drive
up
the
rents
and
the
housing
prices
right.
Everybody
sees
that
except
the
Department
of
Neighborhood
Development,
but
that
is
that's
the
problem.
The
positive
side
is,
they
are
generating
a
huge
amount
of
tax
revenue.
X
57
million
dollars
is
what
those
1,800
apartments
are
already
generating.
The
5100
will
generate
a
hundred
and
one
million
dollars
in
new
property
tax
revenue
over
the
next
three
years:
101
million.
That
is
enough
to
subsidize
10,000
extremely
low-income
people
like
the
people
in
Roxbury,
in
new
construction,
double
the
amount
of
housing
in
the
reclaim
Roxbury
goals.
Double
it,
you
could
save
all
the
expiring
use
buildings.
We
could
help
the
BHA
save
those
apartments
that
that
bill
McGonagall
is
talking
about
and
we
could
end
homelessness
in
the
city
with
10,000
low
income
apartments.
X
So
this
is
not
taking
anything
out
of
any
city
agency.
Now
we're
looking
at
the
new
future
property
tax
revenues.
The
mayor
can
do.
This
does
not
need
an
ordinance,
does
not
need
a
state
legislative
approval.
It's
up
to
the
mayor.
We
have
proposed
an
ordinance
that
we
would
like
the
council
to
consider
to
create
a
program
that
the
mayor
would
then
have
to
decide
about
funding,
and
we
really
appreciate
the
leadership
of
councilor
once
a
command
councillor
Janie.
X
In
supporting
a
letter,
the
ten
councilors
have
signed
supporting
at
least
a
pilot
program
to
this
end,
but
we
think
it's.
We
tried
that
three
years
it
hasn't
gone
anywhere.
Let's
file
an
ordinance,
get
a
vote
on
it
have
a
hearing.
All
of
you
should
come
and
let's
demand
that
these
these
luxury
condos
pay
something
back
to
keep
us
in
our
homes
rather
than
simply
pocketing
the
money
and
paying
paying
this
money
to
the
city
that
we
aren't
seeing
in
new
low
income
housing.
Thank.
B
B
F
Good
evening
my
name
is
Bridget
Wallace
I
purchased
a
home
in
Roxbury
on
Hutchinson
Street,
so
I'm
familiar
with
what
is
happening
and
taking
place
in
our
community,
but
I
wanted
to
just
highlight
two
things:
one.
What
comes
with
gentrification
is
a
rebranding
and
remarketing
of
communities
and
neighborhoods,
and
this
was
discussed
at
the
recent
Roxbury
master
plan.
Oversight
Committee
meeting,
in
which
the
new
melny
Akash
Hotel,
was
advertised
as
an
extension
of
downtown
an
extension
of
the
South
End
and
they
did
not.
F
The
hotel
is
fighting
against
having
the
name
melny
a
caste
placed
on
the
hotel,
and
so
these
are
the
things
and
the
types
of
things
that's
enforced
and
reinforced
that
they
are
moving
us
out
because
we
are
disposable.
But
we
are
here
to
tell
them
that
we're
not
because
we're
not
leaving
and
I
want
to
encourage
folks
in
the
audience
to
not
sell
to
not
be
forced
out
to
not
buy
into
those
marketing
messages.
F
That
tells
us
our
community
is
unsafe,
but
for
other
people
this
is
a
growing
community
and
you
should
be
here
and
then.
The
second
point
quickly
is
around
community
benefits
and
I.
Think
you
councilor
Janie
talked
about
the
windfall
that
developers
get
and
to
look
at
community
benefits,
and
maybe
we
can
put
in
the
ask
that
we
asked
for
a
floor
of
the
market
rate
rents
to
go
into
the
Roxbury
trust
where
we
have
a
governing
over
giving
those
funds
to
helping
people
purchase
homes,
start
small
businesses
and
reinvest
those
funds
back
into
the
community.
Y
Y
I
wanted
to
thank
councillor
Jeannie
for
initiating
this
and
for
all
of
those
that
supported
and
stood
by
coming
together
to
have
this
this
evening,
as
a
resident
of
Roxbury,
I
am
witnessing
numbers
of
my
friends
being
forced
out
of
their
units,
a
promise
by
landlords
and
others
that,
once
their
units
are
done
over
that,
they
would
be
able
to
move
back
in.
That
is
not
happening.
Y
They
are
not
being
able
to
move
back
into
their
homes
as
a
member
of
reclaim
I
am
also
sharing
the
concern
around
guidelines
for
development
and
the
first
committee
that
was
here.
The
gentleman
said
that
you
know
homes
in
Roxbury
are
affordable,
absolutely
not
unaffordable
for
most
of
all
Roxbury
residents
and
that's
people
that
are
brown
and
people
that
are
black.
Y
We
are
not
being
able
to
live
in
our
community
I'm,
looking
around
I'm,
seeing
Maura
and
mom
and
paws
business
being
forced
out
of
the
neighborhood
reclaim
Roxbury
have
been
engaging
with
other
community
groups
and
some
of
which
rep
Tyler
mentioned
and
many
of
them.
We
have
met
over
the
last
year
and
a
half
including
the
People's
Progressive
movement
of
Chinatown.
Y
We
all
had
conversations,
and
within
this
conversation,
what
we
are
asking
the
city
do
and
I'm
only
going
to
list
a
few
to
have
a
real
transparency
around
models
that
show
how
100
percent
affordability
can
be
attained.
Models
were
different,
a
sum
of
the
same
affordability
models
of
how
developers
are
getting
money
back.
You
got
to
show
us,
you
can't
just
say
this
is
a
number
here
in
a
number
there.
We
also
want
to
see
models
that
include
DND
funding,
Mr
vp8,
one
one
section:
eight
citywide
vouchers,
financing
and
additional
funding.
Y
Show
us
don't
tell
us
you're
doing
this.
We
want
to
see
it.
We
want
to
see
how
it's
being
done:
models
of
rental,
own
programs,
policies
that
support
people
moving
in
from
rental
units
in
to
hold
ownership,
which
already
has
been
stated,
our
models
of
Community
Land,
Trust,
co-op,
transferring
ownership
back
to
residents.
We
live
in
the
city,
it's
a
public
land,
it
belongs
to
the
resident
and,
last
but
not
least,
models
of
development
that
are
environmentally
sustainable
and
that's
a
whole
nother
conversation.
Y
The
conversation
has
to
include
the
people
that
are
in
this
room,
how
we
can
do
it
together,
not
the
cities
saying
this
is
what
we
need
to
do.
You
got
to
include
us
we're
meeting
at
neighborhood,
neighborhood,
neighborhood
associations
talking
about
solutions.
We
have
the
solutions,
they
can't
just
make
the
decision
and
we
are
not
a
part
of
that
decision.
We
live
in
the
city.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
B
Z
Evening,
thank
you
for
giving
me
this
opportunity
councillor
in
our
panel,
I
am
a
resident
in
Roxbury
in
the
Highland
Park
section,
surprise
for
some
and
surprise,
not
for
others
who
are
quite
familiar
of
me,
advocating
throughout
Roxbury,
Dorchester,
Mattapan
and
at
times
I'm
in
JP
as
well.
So
everyone
has
reiterated
time
and
time
again
of
the
need
for
the
affordable
housing.
Z
Why
do
they
have
to
make
a
choice
between
prescriptions,
the
utilities
and
how
they're
gonna
feed
themselves?
So
when
you
have
that
anxiety
level,
you're
hurting
a
lot
of
people
that
were
the
that
are
the
backbone
of
Roxbury
and
throughout
all
our
neighborhoods,
they
are
advocates,
they
are
activists,
they
built
this
place
every
bit
of
it
and
all
I
can
tell
them
is
thank
you
because
I
wouldn't
even
be
able
to
be
here
at
all.
Thank
you.
AA
AA
If
we
build
really
tiny
units
or
really
tall
buildings,
but
anything
more
than
that.
Just
isn't
feasible,
and
this
bothers
me
because
they
mislead
people
by
pretending
that
this
restriction
is
because
of
some
unbendable
economic
law.
But
the
real
problem
is
that
their
top
priority
is
guaranteeing
that
developers
make
a
certain
level
of
profit
and
too
much
affordable
housing
makes
that
goal
infeasible
everything
else,
including
ensuring
that
everyone
has
a
roof
over
their
head,
is
secondary
and
they
aren't
transparent
about
that.
AA
So,
ultimately,
working-class
people,
poor
people,
people
of
color,
are
asked
to
make
the
greatest
sacrifices
and
face
the
greatest
harm,
but
developers
aren't
asked
to
make
those
kinds
of
sacrifices
they
make
millions
of
dollars
off
all
of
our
struggles.
The
Boston
Police
and
their
enormous
enormous
budget
aren't
asked
to
make
those
kinds
of
sacrifices.
AA
Corporations,
universities
and
other
powerful
institutions
aren't
asked
to
make
those
kinds
of
sacrifices
and
that
needs
to
change.
Combating
gentrification
and
guaranteeing
a
home
for
everybody
needs
to
be
the
top
priority,
and
once
that
happens,
we'll
start
seeing
more
creative
proposals,
but
we
need
to
organize
within
our
communities
to
make
that
happen,
because
developers
won't
sacrifice
their
profits
happily,
and
these
city
institutions
don't
work
in
our
favor,
as
we
heard
them
testify
earlier.
AA
AB
Yes,
my
name
is
Shannon
Booker,
also
known
as
Khadijah
Muhammad,
Genta
fication
and
displacement.
Well,
I've
just
been
this
place.
I
had
a
section-8
for
a
year,
because
I
have
a
disabled,
son
and
I
was
initially
planning
$2,600
a
month
up
in
high
pot
and
what
happened
was
racism,
racism,
racism,
I
had
two
characters
put
on
my
door:
gotta
go
and
I'm
gonna
say
just
how
it
came.
I
had
to
go,
gotta
go
my
son's.
Wheelchair
was
broken.
All
types
of
things
took
place,
I
reported
to
be
H,
a
ported
it
to
lawyers.
AB
Everyone
I,
even
called
the
mayor's
office
on
it
and
would
end
up
happening,
is
because
I,
the
fear
and
I
am
a
survivor
of
domestic
violence.
You
know
I
packed
up
and
I
was
my
housing
advocate
first
told
me
to
leave
so
I
packed
up
put
my
stuff
in
stories.
Thinking
that
me
and
my
disabled
son,
who
has
a
disabilities,
would
be
safe
and
that
we
would
have
our
section
eight
well,
I've
had
to
place.
My
son
displace
my
son,
all
the
way
down
to
Fall
River,
which
cost
me
almost
$200.
AB
Every
time
I
go
to
visit
him
in
a
brain
institution.
Every
time
I
go
to
visit
him
and
then
I'm
trying
to
find
housing
and
I've
been
displaced
into
Brockton.
They
call
it
broken
cuz,
it's
broke,
Brockton
I,
don't
know
a
damn,
so
dear
and
I'm
afraid,
because
I'm
from
Roxbury
my
grandmother's
here,
who's
just
gone
blind,
she's
a
pioneer
of
this
community.
She
walked
to
her
souls
we're
off
on
her
at
the
bottom
of
her
shoe
she's,
an
activist
Sonya
Booker.
Many
of
you
all
know
her.
AB
Okay
and
I
have
to
go
to
Brockton,
with
the
hopes
that
she'll
be
okay,
because
she
loss
of
vision
someone's
got
to
take
care
but
and
I
come
from
a
family.
That's
close-knit,
I,
don't
want
to
be
in
Brockton.
I
have
I'm
hoping
that
the
place
gets
taken
care
of,
but
I'm
not
going
nowhere.
They
can
have
that
place.
Just
so
I
don't
lose
my
Section
eight,
but
I'm
gonna
remain
here
fighting
for
the
fight.
Thank
you.
O
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
this
format
I
thank
you
very
much
for
having
it
in
Roxbury,
but
the
format
has
to
change,
because
the
I
feel
like
the
the
the
city
agencies,
should
speak
last
or
either
respond
in
writing
afterwards,
because
this
you
look,
this
ensures
that
you're
not
going
to
hear
everyone's
voice
when
you
do
it
in
this
format.
Okay,
so
might
estimating
I'll
start
with
it
right
now.
The
feeding
frenzy
tethered
by
insatiable
greed
in
Roxbury
that
we
are
witnessing,
is
surely
going
to
be
a
fight
of
good
over
evil.
O
We
in
Roxbury
are
witnessing
a
similar
set
of
injustice,
'as
occurring
in
black
and
brown
neighborhoods
all
over
the
country
in
2018.
We
are
still
dealing
with
the
ideological,
institutional,
interpersonal
and
internal
impacts
of
racism,
as
made
evident
in
the
case
studies
that
I
have
here
for
you
today
that
have
been
compiled
by
neighborhood
associations
and
I
have
15
copies
here.
For
you.
O
The
legacy
of
racist
practices
like
redlining
has
brought
our
communities
to
this
place
that
have
provided
know
has
provided
no
access
to
finances
to
fix
our
neighborhoods.
Now
we
are
battling
outside
developers,
international
investors,
real
estate
sales,
people
who
are
operating
as
spotters
for
developers,
while
the
people
in
agencies
that
are
created
to
protect
us
assist
in
the
disrespect
for
those
who
suffer
in
a
part
of
Boston
that
has
been
intentionally
neglected.
In
my
neighborhood,
there
have
been
some
questionable
practices
under
the
receivership
program
that
took
a
private
property
into
ownership
on
our
street.
O
The
request
for
demolition
went
into
the
commenting
period
without
informing
the
residents,
and
luckily,
myself
and
Anna
butter
and
the
president
of
path
forward
went
to
the
Landmarks
Commission
and
we
were
able
to
avert
it.
Why
do
residents
have
to
put
developers
on
notice?
Is
that
our
job
I,
don't
believe
it's
our
job,
so
I
believe
that
we
should
have
some
standards
for
all
developers
that
do
come
into
our
neighborhood
we've
developed
one
for
our
Neighborhood
Association.
We
want
transparency,
track
record
of
ethical
practices,
mutual
care
and
respect
for
us.
Ethical
and
responsible
development.
O
L
AC
AC
There
is
little
doubt
that,
from
the
time
that
the
Boston
Housing
Authority
back
in
the
eighties
began
throwing
residents
out
of
Columbia
Point
and
gave
over
the
escrow
funds
that
should
have
been
used
to
fix
up
and
repair
the
development
wasn't
happening
to
a
private
for-profit
corporation,
the
movement
to
displace
and
remove
working-class
poor
citizens.
Out
of
this,
fair
city
have
fully
begun
since
that
frightful
beginning
the
city
of
Boston
and
its
ages
have
done
their
best
to
destroy
and
minimize
opportunities
for
working
residents
and
find
decent,
safe
and
affordable
housing.
AC
One
could
see
from
the
trend
over
the
past
20
years,
whereby
the
city
invested
more
than
20
billion,
20
billion
of
our
collective
tax
dollars
and
development
and
investment
of
the
urban
renewal
money
in
the
Seaport
Area
Boston.
While
given
a
pittance
of
that
money
to
the
community
of
Roxbury
and
Dorchester,
there
was
no
intention
to
make
equitable
or
fair
the
opportunities
for
progress
to
all
the
residents
of
the
city.
AC
We,
the
residents
of
Roxbury,
have
been
under
siege
from
the
crime,
unscrupulous
landlords
and
corporations
they
care
little
or
nothing
for
those
who
have
spent
their
lives
in
this
city,
raising
families
and
making
boss
in
the
world-class
city
that
they
brag
so
much
about.
We
have
received
little
or
nothing
to
upgrade
and
maintain
the
communities
in
schools,
social
programs
and
parks,
access
to
opportunity,
jobs,
affordable,
homeownership,
entertainment.
An
effective
public
transportation
has
been
almost
non-existent
now
with
the
demand
for
housing.
AC
That
is
closer
to
the
city
centre,
accessible
to
public
transportation,
convenient
to
those
who
chose
to
move
and
abandon
in
the
city
years
ago
and
Infineon
to
new
employment
opportunities
that
are
not
made
available
to
the
residents
of
the
city.
The
prospects
of
those
of
us
who
weathered
the
storm
of
neglect
and
disrespect
or
being
pushed
out
through
an
unscrupulous
means
which
are
being
ignored
in
some
cases
and
supported
in
other
cases,
but
those
who
are
supposed
to
work
on
behalf
of
our
citizens,
families
and
neighbors.
AC
I'm
president
loss
of
public
access
to
playgrounds
and
recreation
for
our
children
and
seniors
has
occurred
in
our
community,
while
a
word
of
protest
or
information
from
anyone.
The
whole
cell
turnover
Carter
playground,
depriving
hundreds
of
residents
and
lower
Roxbury
has
occurred,
and
we
have
yet
to
know
the
reason
why
threats
to
take
away
even
more
open
space
and
parkland
in
Franklin
Park
is
being
discussed
in
the
neighborhoods
of
Roxbury
and
are
not
even
allowed.
Roxbury
residents
are
not
allowed
at
the
table.
AC
Developers
are
seeking
to
add
more
than
three
hundred
units
of
housing
to
already
overcrowded
neighborhood,
offering
little
or
no
we've
no
relief
from
the
traffic
congestion
and
other
designs
and
environment
externalities.
Yet
nowhere
to
support
or
assistance
can't
be
heard
instead
of
receiving
support
and
backing
to
sure
that
the
laws
of
the
Commonwealth
and
the
ordinance
of
the
City
of
Boston
are
being
observed
and
followed
for
the
benefit
of
our
residents.
AC
Some
city
agencies,
commissions
and
boards
and
their
agents
are
given
aid
and
support
the
waivers
and
zoning
relief
to
those
various
individuals,
companies
and
institutions
violating
and
undermining
the
quality
of
life
of
our
communities
and
neighborhoods.
Therefore,
we
are
here
tonight
supporting
the
efforts
to
invoke
a
moratorium
on
large-scale
building
and
development
in
Greater
Roxbury
area
until
a
comprehensive
process.
AC
Clearly
spelling
out
the
specifics
by
which
development
is
to
take
place
is
established
and
agreed
to
by
us
presence
that
will
share
a
conscious
and
respectful
growth
of
the
and
strengthening
of
our
community
and
support
the
fabric
of
community
and
families
for
which
we
have
worked
so
gently
and
struggled
mightily
for
more
than
60
plus
years
to
create
and
maintain
I
appreciate
your
support,
but
I
wait
your
response.
Thank
you.
B
AD
Yeah
I
support,
I
support,
reclaim
Roxbury
and
Roxbury
efforts,
support,
reclaim,
Roxbury
and
Rock
stories,
effort
to
stop
gentle,
stop
displacement
and
justice
and
I
hope
they
do
better
than
South
Boston
dead.
It's
nothing
yet
and
also
I'll
say
when
you
talk
about
communication,
the
manslayer,
Sun
and
self
awesome.
When
there's
a
project
coming
up,
he
fires
the
abutters
and
he
has
a
weekly
email
newsletter.
AE
Hi
I'm
Catherine
Williams
I
live
on
st.
James
Street
and
I'd
like
to
speak
as
a
member
of
Tommy's
Rock
Neighborhood
Association
I'd
like
to
tell
you
a
story
of
two
developers
that
we're
trying
to
deal
with
in
our
neighborhood.
One
is
associated
with
41
region
Street,
the
daryl
settles
group
and
the
other
is
a
the
Regent
Development
Group
Regent
development
that
is
dealing
with
125
Warren
Street.
AE
We
have
had.
We
have
been
trying
for
two
years
to
deal
with
these
two
developers
and
to
try
and
arrange
for
something
reasonable
to
happen
in
our
neighborhood
in
terms
of
affordable
housing
for
our
community
and
also
transportation
issues,
the
first
41
region
street.
We
had
only
had
two
contacts
from
this
developer.
The
first
was
a
BPD,
a
meeting
where
most
of
the
abutters
were
not
informed
about
the
meeting
and
and
the
newman
neighborhood
were
not
informed
about
the
meeting.
It
came
at
very
short
notice
and-
and
this
is
dealing
with
public
lands.
AE
AE
AE
There
was
something
in
the
CBA
saying
that
you
had
supported
this
particular
I'll
check
into
that.
Okay,
the
other
one
is
the
one
125
Warren
Street,
the
developer,
I
just
wanted
to
say
the
developer.
Regent
development
has
been
working
with
us,
trying
very
hard
to
make
sure
he
listens
to
our
concerns
and
we
are
actually.
AE
He
has
gone
from
wanting
to
put
42
units
on
a
very
small
six
storey,
building
on
a
very
small
property
on
Warren
at
Warren
and
Regent
Street
to
actually
reducing
it
significantly
to
28
units
and
only
four
levels
and-
and
we
haven't
started
to
discussion
about
the
affordable
housing,
but
it's
something
that
is
very
important
and
the
transportation
issues.
So
what
I
would
ask
you
is
to
try
and
help
improve
the
process
for
the
community
associations
when
we
are
trying
to
deal
with
these
developers.
They
are
not
listening
to
us
very
well.
AE
AF
Now
they
are
landlord
is
a
Japanese
man
who
has
never
been
into
this
country,
so
they
all
of
their
business,
is
handled
through
a
third
party
ranked
I,
don't
know
what
to
call
it
real
estate
person.
But
my
concerns
are
at
that.
They've
only
lived
in
this
house
for
about
a
month
and
a
half
and
they
they're
having
all
of
these
problems,
but
they're.
They
have
to
pay
this
absurd
amount
of
money
split
between
the
four
of
them.
AF
B
L
B
AG
My
name
is
Alex
Boone
takapa
young
community
organizer
with
the
city
life
via
Ravana
Lawrence,
was
supposed
to
write
my
name
down,
but
he
himself
down
anyways.
He
wrote
whose
self
for
me
so
that's
why
I'm
here
I
wanted
to
thank
Roxbury
for
coming
out
and
making
this
issue
one
of
the
issues.
That
is,
you
know
we
wouldn't
be
here
if
it
wasn't
for
for
y'all
and
I
want
to.
AG
Thank
you
guys
for
listening
to
us
and
having
this
meeting
and
I
wanted
to
thank
the
city
for
starting
on
some
of
the
things
that
you
know,
impact
us
like
the
speculation
working
hearing
and
and
this
hearing
here.
It's
all
moving
towards
the
right
direction.
So
yeah
I
have
a
comment
suggestion
and
a
few
questions.
So
my
comment
was
about
the
acquisition.
AG
Program
that
the
city
has
I
wanted
to
ask
the
the
panel
from
the
city,
but
they're,
not
here
anymore,
so
I
guess
we'll
just
asking
you
guys.
Well,
this
is
really
just
a
comment.
They.
The
program
is
to
buy
buildings
that
are
are
on
on
the
you
know,
private
market
and
to
make
sure
they
stay,
affordable
and-
and
we
want
to
focus
on
buildings
where
we're
seeing
problems.
But
the
problem
is
the
CDC's
aren't
buying
triple-deckers
in
the
areas
where
we're
seeing
problems.
AG
They
prioritize
buildings
that
have
30
units
or
more
and
the
buildings
where
we
see
problems
that
are
30
units
or
more
are
owned
by
really
bad
actors
and
they're
not
going
to
sell
to
a
CDC
for
the
for
the
price
where
we
can
see
affordable
housing.
So
it's
it's
it's
a
good
idea,
but
we
need
other
things
working
at
the
same
time
for
it
to
actually
work.
AG
So
we
had
a
working
hearing
last
week
on
speculation
that
you
guys
that
you
guys
had,
but
we
really
need
to
see
these
ideas
that
we're
talking
about
happen
quickly,
because
the
problem
is
happening
now.
People
are
being
evicted
now.
So
these
ideas,
like
speculation,
tax
and
all
these
other
stuff,
we
need
to
start
seeing
proposals
and
and
really
start
moving
quickly.
AG
Another
suggestion
was
rent
control
in
areas
in
planning
areas.
We've
already
mentioned
it
tons
of
times.
That's
my
suggestion
personally.
I
think
we
need
to
see
rent
control
or
rent
stabilization
or
whatever
you
want
to
call
it.
And
lastly,
I
had
a
question
about
the
affordable
housing.
It
was
mentioned
earlier
that
there's
certain
barriers
for
people
when
they're
applying
for
housing,
so
the
affordable
housing
process
for
you
to
get
affordable
housing.
You
won't
have
to
pass
the
building's
management.
AG
Whatever
their
process
is
to
approve
somebody,
and
then
you
have
to
go
through
the
BPD,
a
process
and
that's
kori
checks,
its
background
checks,
its
credit
checks
and
all
that
stuff.
So
I'm
curious
to
know
what
do
the
demographics
look
like
of
the
folks
I
actually
live
in
affordable
housing
in
Boston
and
I
know
that
you
got
the
BPD
a
month
might
have
that
data
because
in
the
application
there's
a
page
where
you
ask
for
the
demographics
of
the
folks
living
there.
AG
B
AG
AH
Despite
the
opposition
of
abutters
and
other
residents,
there
was
tremendous
opposition
to
the
proposal
at
63,
Moreland
Street,
because
the
lot
is
zoned
for
five
units
in
two
buildings,
and
that
is
what
the
buyer
of
the
property
wrote
to
the
seller.
Who
owns
the
house
next
door
when
he
wanted
to
purchase
the
property,
but
after
he
received
the
deed
to
the
property
he
applied
for
variances
to
build
eight
units
which
is
more
than
the
law
to
zone
four.
So
there
were
63
signatures
on
a
petition.
AH
The
zoning
of
appeals
responsible
for
following
article
50
community
residents
believe
that
the
developer
really
had
help
from
the
city
helped
that
neighborhood
residents
neighborhood
residents,
who
you
know
owned
property
in
that
neighborhood,
do
not
receive
and
that
a
home
is
really
the
most
expensive
item
that
most
neighborhood
most
individuals
own,
and
we
really
see
that
despite
lip
service
that
the
city
wants
to
have.
Working-Class
residents
in
the
city
wants
to
have
middle-income
residents,
yet
they're
they're
really
feeling
steamrolled
by
the
process.
AH
Q
My
name
is
Betty
Lowe
I
am
a
lifelong
resident
of
Greater
Boston
I
started
life
in
Chinatown,
my
parents
bought
and
now
own
a
home
in
Medford
and
I,
currently
rent
in
Quincy
as
I
stand
to
inherit
that
generational
wealth
I
am
but
a
witness
to
the
widening
inequality
and
the
economic
pain
in
Boston
and
in
Roxbury.
Housing
is
a
basic
human
right
and
the
lack
of
access
to
it
is
an
affront
to
human
dignity.
Q
I
have
been
to
council
meetings
at
both
Medford
City
Hall
and
at
Boston,
City,
Hall
and
I
have
seen
aggressive
apathy
and
a
lack
of
action
in
good
faith
on
the
part
of
our
elected
leaders.
When
it
comes
to
protecting
their
most
vulnerable
constituents,
I
mean.
Do
we
really
just
see
a
push
back
on
a
development
moratorium
in
Roxbury
from
the
mayor
office
when
that
is
what
multiple
residents
have
specifically
called
for?
The
residents
are
left
to
organize
and
fight
for
themselves.
Q
Q
at
Prince
Hall
in
Dorchester,
24,
Washington
Street
for
a
community
meeting
in
support
of
a
city
ordinance
to
provide
access
to
high
quality,
permanent
jobs
to
women,
black
and
brown
residents
and
low-income
residents
of
Boston,
and
in
particular,
of
Roxbury,
with
oversight
by
the
very
people
that
have
been
closest
to
the
pain
former
city
councilor
Chuck
Turner
is
here,
I've
been
helping
him
in
his
Community
Coalition
out.
With
this
event,
it's
this
Saturday
at
Prince
Hall.
Please
take
one
of
our
flyers
from
the
table
just
outside
of
this
room
in
English
and
in
Spanish.
AC
G
B
AI
Yes,
good
evening,
my
name
is
for
this
area
and
I'm
requesting
the
next
time.
They
do
a
jury.
They
have
to
come
frost
the
testimonies,
because
this
is
not
right
to
not
to
have
all
these
people
that
have
been
waiting
for
all
night
and
they
send
us
to
the
last
minute
and
we
need
to
hear
from
the
Garmin.
You
know
City
City
Hall.
They
need
to
be
here.
Hearing
us,
I'm,
Antonin
or
raspberry
Community,
College,
I'm,
sorry,
raspberry,
435,
111,
ooh
I
have
been
living
there.
AI
Nine
years
and
the
soda
building
in
2013
who
bought
the
building
is
CRM
and
I
have
been
fighting
for
him
since
then,
I
continued,
fighting
with
them
with
the
lawyers,
a
city
life
think
thanks
to
the
invader,
bana
they
have
the
help.
In
me,
city
life
is
the
best,
but
unfortunately
take
a
steal.
They
cannot
help
me
now
because
they
told
me
we
don't
1u
there
anymore.
You
have
to
live
because
I
cannot
pay.
What
they're
asking
me
I
can
pay,
but
I'm
not
continuing
paying
them
every
single
year
going
up.
AI
100,
200,
300,
400
now
$1,000.
This
is
not
okay!
It's
not
that
I'm
not
able
to
pay
I
can
pay,
but
because
and
also
I
couldn't
in
your
fighting.
They
are
suing
me
because
I
have
to
pay
the
money
that
I
did
not
pay
of
the
Renda.
That
asking
me-
and
this
is
not
fair
and
I'm.
Looking
for
justice
and
fighting
for
Latino
community,
we
are
fighting
for
people
of
color
in
our
place
raspberry
and
we
don't
want
it
live.
AI
Unfortunately,
I
have
to
leave
next
year,
July
to
the
Frost's
I'm,
continuing
fighting
for
the
people
who
are
being
infected
every
single
minute.
It's
not
every
day
is
every
single
minute
and
we
have
to
really
take
on
consideration
of
the
people
who
are
being
their
citizens
and
making
a
difference
in
our
community
in
other
people
who
has
a
lot
of
money
and
they
are
greedy
and
they
want
to
take
us
all
these
money
that
they
say
that
we
have,
but
we
don't
have,
but
we
are
human
beings,
so
they
need
to
respect
us.
Thank
you.
AJ
Good
evening
my
name
is
Erica
service
I'm,
a
former
renter
and
current
homeowner
I
had
some
comments
and
questions
that
I
wanted
to
pose
to
the
city
reps,
but
I'll
just
submit
my
written
testimony.
So
some
of
the
things
I
wanted
to
say
is
that
I
think
building
more
only
makes
sense
if
it's
also
paired
with
a
regional
strategy
when
it
comes
to
affordable
housing
and
zoning
regulations.
AJ
AJ
Another
thing
in
terms
of
is
more
around
development,
but
with
the
monitoring
of
development
projects
in
accordance
with
the
BR
JP
I
still
don't
feel
that
there's
enough
enforcement
of
penalties
and
consequences
and
I
think
that
that's
something
that
we
real
the
city
should
really
push
towards
actually
enforcing
those
penalties
and
consequences,
and,
and
then
those
fines
that
are
collected
from
those
non-compliant
or
firms
that
are
in
violations,
could
then
also
go
into
the
pool
for
affordable
housing.
Thank
you
thank.
AK
Good
evening
my
name
is
Cheryl
Lynn
Jones
I'm,
a
resident
of
Rice
Barry
for
the
past
six
years,
I
have
a
40
year
old
son.
He
works
in
the
Boston
school
system.
He
coaches,
numerous
teams
in
the
city
knows
all
the
kids.
A
small
business
owner
and
I
have
a
grandson
who's,
13
years
old.
When
I
when
I
talked
to
him,
the
other
day
was
so
wistful
just
wish.
He
could
find
his
father
could
find
a
home
to
buy.
He
should
be
able
to
he,
he
works.
AK
He
contributes
and
I,
don't
understand
how
knowing
the
history
of
housing.
This
is
not
a
new
phenomenon
that
we
are
dealing
with
right
now.
It's
happened
time
and
time
and
time
again,
I
bought
a
house
from
NACA.
What
is
NACA?
That's
about
the
same
thing
that
we're
dealing
with
right
now.
So
what
I
don't
understand
is
how
we
use
the
same
approach
to
solve
the
same
problem
when
we
know
how
I
don't
see
how
we
don't
know
how
to
fix
this.
The
solutions
never
really
seem
to
be
centered
around
the
affected.
AK
They're
anecdotal
black
women
lost
their
homes
in
in
historic
numbers.
In
this
last
crisis,
but
where
are
they
I?
Don't
see
them
necessarily
at
the
table
when
it
comes
time
to
remedy
this
situation
and
and
really
it's
it,
it
enrages
me,
it
really
does
I
lived
him.
I
lived
in
Boston
I
mean
in
DC
for
ten
years
came
back
in
2012
and
I
was
just
so
angry
riding
through
the
city,
seeing
how
much
it
has
changed.
Seeing
the
same
story
play
itself
out
again
right
here
in
my
hometown.
AK
AK
Well,
what
will
make
health
housing
for
six
or
seven
hundred
I
looked
at
the
the
arm
did
sign
out
there,
fifteen
hundred
new
home,
sixty
eight
percent
or
market
and
a
luxury.
What
is
market
rate
today,
$2,200
$2,500,
my
own
landlord,
who
I
know
they
I,
was
paying
$900,
not
a
lot
of
money
here,
but
not
pennies
either.
Just
like
that
$400
a
month
and
actually
he'd
have
a
nerve
to
think
he'd
told
me
a
favor
because
that's
under
the
market,
this
is
crazy
and
it's
not
gonna
be
fixed
by
sound
bites.
AK
It's
not
gonna
be
fixed
by
the
same
solution.
If
you
don't
have
these
people
here
at
the
table,
we're,
and-
and
this
is
where
all
the
ideas
are-
we're-
not
we're
just
playing
games.
This
is
how
I
feel
well
I'm
willing
to
fight
to
make
it
right,
I'm
willing
to
fight
for
my
grandson
to
have
a
home
to
live
in,
but
I'm,
not
I'm,
not
with
the
gangs
I'm.
Just
not
now,
if
you're
serious
about
wanting
to
help
these
people,
it's
easy
to
do
it's
very
easy
to
do
they
they
they.
AK
E
Here
my
name
is
Reverend
Willie
Bobby,
the
second
I
serve
as
the
associate
pastor.
The
historic
12
mapped
his
church
and
my
wife
is
a
physician
at
Boston,
Medical
Center,
but
I
am
here
today
as
a
proud
Roxbury
resident
where
I
live
on
Moreland
Street
I'm
here
to
voice
my
concerns
about
gentrification
and
displacement
here
in
our
community.
This
conversation
is
a
for.
Mention
is
not
a
new
one.
However,
we
have
all
felt
the
angst
and
anxiety
that
current
prices
of
new
development
are
placed
on
each
and
every
one
of
our
residents.
E
As
for
many
who
are
present
today,
I
don't
think
we
are
all
anti-development,
but
we
are
pro
community,
which
means
that
responsible
development
includes
each
and
every
one
of
us
according
to.
According
to
the
imagine,
Boston
2030
report,
housing
prices
rolls
70%
between
2010
and
2015.
These
are
dramatic
price
increases
that
have
had
a
disparate
impact
on
low-income
renters
and
potential
homebuyers,
like
me,
and
my
wife,
but
we
are
at
the
close
of
2018,
which
means
for
far
too
long.
E
The
law
of
the
focus
has
not
been
on
the
residents
and
small
business
owners
that
are
in
this
community,
but
they
have
been
focused
on
producing
a
housing
stock
or
miss
simply
housing
availability
without
our
community
and
mine.
If
this
community
was
really
considered,
then
the
plans
to
bill
were
taken
to
account
that
the
median
household
income
is
thirty,
four
thousand
six
hundred
dollars.
E
If
our
community
was
really
taken
into
consideration,
then
the
city
would
acknowledge
and
accommodate
the
fact
that
the
average
household
median
net
worth
for
an
african-american
family
is
eight
dollars
compared
to
white
households,
which
is
two
hundred
and
forty
seven
thousand
and
five
hundred
dollars.
If
our
community
was
really
taken
seriously,
we
will
look
at
the
cultural
erasure
of
our
community
and
see
that
it
is
directly
connected
to
the
pricing
of
the
homes
in
this
neighborhood
I'm
here
to
consider
our
community
and
bring
like
to
these
very
real
issues.
E
I
know,
I
have
a
minute
left
and
so
I
want
to
get
to
my
five
solutions.
That
I
would
like
to
propose
to
the
city
to
consider
on
this
evening
number
one
I
believe
the
city
could
consider
rezoning
particular
areas
to
protect
and
preserve
existing
housing
and
regulate
construction
of
new
projects
and
protect
the
small
business
districts.
Number
two
I
hope
that
the
city
thinks
about
creating
a
strategic
land
acquisition
plan.
E
This
would
focus
on
creating
a
policy
that
repurposes
the
surplus
land
that
D
and
D
and
the
BD
PA
hold,
and
using
these
Lots
to
directly
create
low,
moderate
and
middle-income
housing.
Number
three
I
believe
that
the
city
should
create
a
collaborative
housing
investment
program.
This
would
allocate
family
fund
funding
for
families
to
come
together
and
use
the
city's
revenue
streams
to
assist
families
and
collectively
investing
in
two
and
three
family
units.
This
program
should
also
procedurally
be
assisted
by
the
city
to
make
sure
families
know
how
to
go
through
the
acquisition
process.
E
Number
four
I
believe
the
city
should
implement
a
tax
incentive
program
that
would
support
good
landlords
and
good
developers
that
are
willing
to
lower
rents
and
maintain
rent
affordability
at
a
level
for
the
community,
while
also
building
at
rates
that
are
below
market
to
meet.
The
city's.
Bustling
demands
and
number
five
I
suggest
that
the
city.
E
I
believe
that
these
practical
solutions
are
not
affixed
all,
but
just
a
part
in
the
process
of
helping
our
community
really
seriously
address
our
housing,
affordability,
problem
and
I
want
to
close
first
and
closing
at
last
in
closing
just
thank
councillor
Janey
for
your
foresight
and
your
commitment
to
this
community
and
your
willingness
to
make
this
a
that
is
a
part
of
your
platform
and
being
here
to
make
sure
that
it's
here
in
roxbury
to
hear
our
concerns
I.
Thank
you
all
for
your
time.
I.
AM
B
B
L
AM
You
so,
as
mentioned,
my
name
is
Keith.
Mcdermott
I've
worked
in
Roxbury
since
1989
at
Northeastern,
the
Reggie
Lewis
Center,
now
I
work
in
Franklin,
but
first
of
all,
I
want
to
commend
you
guys
for
doing
this.
I
think
this
is
very
important.
This
is
something
that,
near
and
dear
to
my
heart,
I
know
we're
talking
about
gentrification
gentrification
is
a
byproduct
of
what's
not
what's
happening
in
this
community.
AM
It's
not
so
much
about
I,
don't
like
to
break
things
down
into
black
and
white.
You
know
I'd
like
to
look
at
the
practical
reason
of
what's
going
on
when
you
talk
about
affordability,
people
gotta
have
jobs
that
pays
in
an
equitable
way
that
so
they
can
afford
market
rate.
You
know
I'm
I'm,
sitting
there
and
I'm
listening
to
and
I,
don't
want
to
repeat
what
people
said
it
ready,
because
you
guys
are
smart
enough
to
hear
it,
but
my
cousin
delayed
can
go.
AM
AM
AM
You
know
we
have
an
institution
here
in
Roxbury,
Community
College,
that
our
shared
us
with
you
of
the
19
presidents.
Vice
president
Dean
and
director's
position,
14
of
them
were
white
that
replaced
black
folks
and
every
single
one
of
the
white
folks
were
paid
a
whole
lot
more
than
they
paid
black
black
people
that
had
those
credential.
That's
what
leads
to
lack
of
affordability.
So
what
can
we
do?
We
can
investigate
hiring
practices
and
pay
rate
for
public
employees,
because
those
are
public
information.
AM
AM
So
then,
the
last
but
not
least
when
I
was
at
Northeastern
I
work
for
herb,
Jackson's,
there's
Tito's,
dad
council,
Saunders,
Sarah,
Diane,
Wilkerson
and
Glory
Fox,
and
we
looked
at
how
we
were
compensating
people
to
make
sure
that
they
can
afford
to
live
and
not
just
affordable
housing
market
rate
housing.
You
guys
have
the
skill
set
to
do
that
with
the
current
state,
senators
and
state
Rep,
and
if
they
don't
want
to
work
with
them,
force
them
to
work
with
you.
AM
AN
Good
evening
my
name
is
Michael
Prentiss
I'm,
a
Roxbury
native.
Can
we
organize
her?
Thank
you
all
for
being
here.
Thank
y'all
for
making
this
happen
real
quick.
There
were
so
many
good
points
are
brought
up
around
diagnosing
the
problem,
the
different
ways
in
which
our
community
is
being
besieged,
and
so
one
point
that
I
kind
of
want
to
bring
it
to
is
just
sort
of
just
naming
the
sort
of
implications,
putting
the
fault
back
where
it
belongs.
AN
In
terms
of
talking
about
the
unaccountability
of
the
b
ra
or
the
BPD,
a
we
don't
as
residents
as
you
were
there,
councillor
Janey
you
saw
residents
and
Roxbury
were
unanimous
in
their
resistance
to
the
planned
deadly
plan,
as
it
was
iterated
and
RFPs
that
went
out
and
having
anything.
Unanimous
and
Roxbury
is
incredible
first
off,
but
you
saw
that
we
as
a
community
stood
up
and
said.
AN
If
we
don't
stop
this
here
and
so
urban,
this
new
urban
renewal,
that's
happening,
really
is
taking
away
one
of
our
last
natural
resources
in
Roxbury,
our
last
chance
to
sort
of
get
the
neighborhood
and
the
historic
residence
I'm
not
talking
about
just
the
land.
I'm
talk
about
the
people
and
to
get
them
back
on
track
to
equity
generation
and
wealth
generation.
AN
So
this
is
a
really
last
chance
and
if
the
neighborhoods
divided,
if
we're
not
putting
this
in
alignment
with
our
master
plan,
if
we're
not
putting
this
in
alignment
with
the
wishes
of
the
community,
then
our
last
natural
assets
and
disposed
of
in
a
rush
just
because
of
a
hot
market
markets
come
and
go.
But
Roxbury
is
weathered
through
that,
and
so
what
I
really
need
to
ask
is
the
City
Council
to
just
tell
us
like
be
real.
AN
Like
do
y'all
even
have
any
more
power
over
the
BP
ta
can
y'all
tell
them
to
stop,
can
y'all
tell
them,
they
violated
their
own
zoning
codes.
There
are
no
article
50s
and
yeah
and
are
unaccountable
and
creating
these
city
plans.
So
that's
what
I
really
want
to
know
and
I
really
just
want
to
name
the
devil
in
the
room,
and
thank
you
for
your
time
and
we'll
look
forward
to
continuing
this
conversation.
Thank
you.
AO
Good
evening
my
name
is
Monica
Tapley
I'm,
a
resident
of
Roxbury
a
fairly
new
resident
I've,
been
here
for
about
two
years,
and
it's
been
alarming
to
me
really
what
the
level
of
gentrification
and
the
level
of
just
blatant
disregard
that's
happening
for
all
parts
of
the
community.
Here
I've
lived
all
over
Boston
for
the
past
five
years,
coming
from
Orlando
Florida
I
grew
up
in
New,
York,
City
I'm
know
firsthand
what
displacement
looks
like
what
the
effects
of
displacement
are.
AO
My
family
moved
every
two
years
from
apartment
to
apartment,
in
New,
York,
City
and
I'm
very
proud
to
be
an
owner
of
land
here
in
Roxbury
and
I'm
here
to
fight
to
make
sure
that
what
I
lived
through
as
a
child,
my
child
won't
have
to
go
through
and
my
community
won't
have
to
go
through.
Roxbury
is
a
residential
and
historic
community
declared
or
not
yet
the
mayor's
office
and
representatives
are
not
interested
in
supporting
the
residents
currently
living
in
our
area.
AO
This
is
demonstrated
by
the
countless
times
public
land
has
been
taken
over
by
private
entities.
Developments
are
intentionally
benefiting
those
who
gain
financially
and,
at
the
same
time,
facilitating
rent
increases
now
residents,
most
of
them
seniors,
who
have
lived
in
Roxbury
for
generations,
are
forced
to
make
untenable
decisions.
Affordability
is
not
a
relative
term.
Affordability
is
a
relative
term.
AO
Affordability
in
Roxbury
is
not
the
same
as
it
is
in
Greater
Roxbury
and
until
the
lag
land-grab
began,
Roxbury
has
simply
been
a
blip
on
the
city's
map,
not
deserving
the
level
of
respect
that
we
are
due.
The
vast
majority
of
Roxbury
residents
are
low
middle
income,
low
income
and
extremely
low
income
households.
AO
It's
undeniable
that
rents
have
increased,
that
the
city
standard
of
living
has
skyrocketed
and
properties
for
sale,
rarely
go
on
the
market
for
less
than
half
a
million
dollars
even
on
Copeland
Street,
where
I
live
throughout.
These
changes,
Roxbury
has
provided
its
residents
an
opportunity
to
live
close
to
the
places
where
we
work
close
to
the
places
where
we
support
businesses
and
simply
able
to
live
within
our
means
throughout
these
changes.
Residents
from
across
Boston
and
short-term
renters,
who
temporarily
work
or
study
in
Boston,
have
realized
our
neighborhoods
unique
opportunities.
AO
Nonetheless,
the
current
pipeline
of
development
across
our
neighborhoods
will
not
alleviate
the
housing
crisis.
Our
current
residents,
faced
with
the
influx
of
competition
for
rent
and
mortgages,
the
current
pipeline
solves
our
housing
inconveniences
of
higher
income
households
that
see
Roxbury
as
an
ideal,
short-term
rental
or
investment
opportunity,
but
not
as
a
home.
We
are
faced
with
a
rapidly
gentrifying
neighborhood
at
all
corners.
We
are
alarmed
that
our
City
Council,
the
Zoning
Board
and
the
BPD
a
consistently
ignore
a
pressing
demands.
Well,
we
want
to
see
vacant
lots
developed.
AO
L
B
AP
Evening,
everyone
so
I
just
wanted
to
start
off
by
thanking
you
all
for
having
this
hearing.
I
just
wanted
to
just
begin,
since
this
is
what
the
birthplace
of
America
with
a
little
bit
of
Scripture
since
we
just
had
a
preacher.
The
first
book
of
Samuel
Chapter,
12,
verses,
16
through
17,
says
now,
stand
there
and
see
great
things
the
Lord
is
about
to
do.
You
know
that
it
does
not
rain
at
this
time
of
year
during
wheat
harvest
I
will
ask
the
Lord
to
send
thunder
and
rain.
AP
Today,
then,
you
will
realize
how
wicked
you
have
been
in
asking
the
Lord
for
a
king.
My
first
question
is
why
the
BHA
is
selling
public
housing
buildings
in
favor
of
luxury
condos.
When
dr.
King
jr.
spoke
at
the
same
12th
Baptist
Church
as
Reverend
product
who
previously
spoke.
Dr.
King
spoke
in
the
1960s
here
in
a
massive
march
through
Massachusetts
Avenue
and
Tremont
Street
long
before
he
ever
marched
on
Washington
DC
and
60
years
ago.
AP
We
were
talking
about
jobs,
education
and
housing,
and
so
that's
the
reason
why
I'm
saying,
with
all
due
respect
that
this
council
should
be
ashamed
of
itself
when
we're
closing
schools
and
closing
public
housing.
Now
what
will
Boston
look
like
five
years
from
now
because
we're
talking
about
a
five-year
plan,
but
we
need
to
talk
about
numbers,
so
twelve
thousand
six
hundred
and
twenty
three
household
times
$14,000
on
average
per
household
equals
176
million.
AP
Seven
hundred
and
twenty-two
dollars
at
the
city
gets
every
year
just
from
public
housing
residents
that
they
themselves
pay
for
the
landlord,
which
is
a
city.
So
we
can't
cry
poor
anymore,
because
the
numbers
are
there
that
176
million
seven
hundred
and
twenty-two
thousand
dollars
annually
times.
Five
will
be
eight
hundred
eighty
three
million
six
hundred
and
ten
thousand
dollars
five
years
from
now
in
2022,
when,
hopefully,
we'll
have
a
new
governor,
because
I'm
glad
we
still
have
Charlie
Baker.
AP
AP
Eight
hundred
and
eighty
three
million
dollars
just
doing
the
math
six
hundred
and
ten
plus
the
five
hundred
and
five
million
that
Michael
just
mentioned
earlier,
plus
the
capital
funds
of
a
hundred
and
thirty
five
million
that
this
city
is
going
to
be
getting
from.
Hud
equals
one
point:
five
billion
dollars
in
five
years.
AP
Now,
if
you
were
to
divide
by
five
that
would
be
about
three
hundred
million
dollars
on
average
every
year
that
this
council
is
guaranteed
to
get
so
we're
gonna,
stop
pretending
like
we
don't
know
what
the
money's
gonna
come
from
now
I'm,
just
asking
for
1%
of
the
city's
budget,
which
would
be
thirty
million
dollars
every
year
to
be
spent
on
low-income
housing.
So
we
can
do
the
math
later.
I
can
help
you
all.
If
you
need
me
to
that's,
not
a
problem,
but
there's
gonna
be
no
more
small.
AP
Talk
we're
gonna
just
talk
about
what
the
numbers
mean,
because
twenty
seven
million
dollars
are
already
allocated
to
be
spent
on
public
housing
by
this
council.
You've
already
signed
off
on
it's
in
the
budget.
It
used
to
say,
however,
though,
that
only
seventeen
million
was
going
to
be
spent
in
2016
and
2017,
so
we're
all
of
a
sudden
two
decks.
Ten
million
dollars
come
from
well,
what
happened
was
we
talked
to
Peter?
We
talked
to
Paul.
We
said
we're
not
gonna
get
robbed
anymore.
That's
what
happens
at
over
ten
million
dollars.
AP
That,
interestingly,
is
hovering
on
the
median
income
that
they
were
mentioning
over
racial
disparities.
That
white
families
have
over
a
quarter
million
dollars.
Black
families
only
have
eight
dollars,
which
is
also
pathetic,
because
I
blame
that
on
this
city's
education,
because
with
the
right
education,
we
should
be
able
to
be
sending
people
to
all
of
the
wonderful
colleges
around
Boston.
This
is
not
some
third-world
country.
AP
This
is
Boston
Massachusetts,
and
so
because
of
that,
let's
look
at
who
already
lives
here,
because
I
don't
want
to
be
planning
ahead
for
some
imaginary
group
of
people
when
we
already
have
a
population
here
we
to
be
considering,
and
the
people
that
currently
live
here
are
forced
out
through
renovations.
If
you
don't
want
me
to
speak
anymore,
then
that's
fine.
The
numbers
are
already
there.
300
million
dollars
is
already
being
allocated
coming
in
through
housing,
revenue
and
I
would
like
to
see
what
you
all
do.
Thank
you.
That's
my
time
have
a
wonderful
day.
B
G
AQ
H
AQ
AQ
If
we
can
really
look
at
illite
real
estate,
if
we
can
really
look
into
like
stocks
and
buys
in
order
to
empower
ourselves
and
and
sorry
I'm
speaking
from
the
heart,
I
don't
even
know
where
all
this
is
coming
from
play,
but
if
we
really
just
look
into
what
we're
doing
it
into
the
mirror
and
really
unify
what
I
saw
like
there
was
a
shootout
in
Jackson
Square
the
other
day,
and
it's
just
like
pro
like
we
killing
ourselves
like.
We
need
to
build
and
grow
together.
Yo.
AR
Good
evening
my
name
is
Charlotte
patella
I'm,
a
resident
here
in
Roxbury
I,
have
two
small
children
and
an
elderly
parent.
So
I
do
not
have
prepared
remarks
and
I.
Ask
you
to
stew
indulge
me
as
I
go
in
full
disclosure
I'm,
also
a
litigant
in
the
appeal
of
the
zoning
Board's
grant
of
six
variances
concerning
the
property
on
Moreland
Street,
so
I'm
somewhat
circumscribed,
and
what
I
can
discuss
tonight.
AR
That
said,
there
are
three
points
that
I'd
like
to
briefly
make:
one
is
around
elder
protection,
I
strongly
urge
you,
as
a
matter
of
practice
or
as
a
matter
of
legislation,
to
consider
disclosure
and
certification
requirements
from
developers.
This
is
needed
to
protect
our
elderly
populations,
who
are
particularly
vulnerable
to
Appeals,
to
sell
their
property
for
what
appears
to
be
large
amounts
of
money
who
are
told
that
certain
people
will
live
on
a
property
and
certain
number
of
units
will
be
built
when,
in
fact
that
is
not
the
plan.
AR
The
second
issue
I
want
to
raise-
and
this
is
in
connection
with
the
Zoning
Board
of
Appeal-
is
that
it
suffers
from
bouts
of
lawlessness
in
in
order
to
seek
vindication
with
respect
to
those
bouts
of
lawlessness.
One
must
appeal
to
the
Superior
Court.
This
is
a
highly
technical
process.
It
requires
the
skill
of
an
attorney
to
guide
one
through
it.
It
is
an
intimidating
process.
I
will
tell
you
that
in
this
lawsuit,
the
very
first
interrogatory
poundage
was.
AR
The
written
question
propounded
to
us
was
asking
for
a
summary
of
all
of
our
convictions,
as
if
that
had
something
to
do
with
the
lawfulness
of
the
variance
is
granted.
For
this
reason,
I
ask
you
to
consider
enacting
legislation
that
would
enable
prevailing
a
butter
residents
to
attorneys
fees
and
costs,
to
incentivize
members
of
the
bar
to
take
these
cases
and
to
empower
people
in
our
community
to
vindicate
their
rights
in
court
relatedly.
AR
With
respect
to
evictions
I
strongly
urge
you,
to
the
extent,
is
within
your
jurisdiction
to
consider
fee
shifting
statutes
for
fictions
to
incentivize
members
of
the
bar
to
take
on
eviction
cases
representing
tenants
in
our
legal
system.
If
you
go
to
so
thank
you.
If
you
go
to
Boston
Housing
Court
on
every
any
given
eviction
day,
we
you
will
notice
that
there
is
a
disproportionate
number
of
people
of
color
without
representation
who
must
go
against
attorneys.
AR
AF
AS
So
some
of
the
things
that
we
are
asking
for
a
few
of
them,
Charlotte
just
mentioned
but
also
I,
would
I
would
like
to
reiterate
the
protection
of
seniors,
because,
typically,
when
gentrification
occurs,
it's
older
seniors
who
have
their
homes
that
may
need
a
little
bit
of
work.
Maybe
their
children
are
all
grown
up.
Maybe
they
don't
live
in
the
community.
Maybe
they
do,
and
someone
comes
and
flashes
a
few
hundred
thousand
dollars
and
then
pretty
much
the
house
is
gone
and
then
over
development
and
so
on
and
so
forth.
AS
We
believe
that
there
should
be
signed
conflict
of
interest
disclosure
forms
for
members
of
committees
having
an
impact
on
development,
so
that
members
are
transparent
about
relationships
that
they
may
have.
Projects
should
have
a
critical
threshold
of
a
butter
and
direct
neighborhood
support
to
proceed
where
variances
from
the
zoning
codes
are
needed
for
a
project
and
again
seniors
who
may
be
particularly
vulnerable
to
developers
real
estate
tactics
used
to
get
them
to
sell
their
properties
must
have
protection
from
the
most
aggressive
industry.
AS
Practices
used
in
gentrifying
neighborhoods
I
also
want
to
reiterate
another
item
on
here
that
we
would
like
to
see.
There
should
be
no
disposition
of
public
land
until
significant
anti
displacement
measures
are
taken
and
the
roxbury
master
plan
written
in
2004
can
be
updated
and
then
more
creative
application
of
land
use
laws.
Legal
to
should
also
be
used
to
combat
displacement.
I
know
that
I'm,
sorry
to
remember
your
name.
He
mentioned
something
about
a
piece
of
property,
but
it
just
kind
of
went
quickly
and
I
want
people
to
understand.
AS
D
AS
H
Thank
you
so
much
again,
I
just
want
to
start
by
thanking
folks
again,
just
as
I
began
with
my
opening
statement
want
to
thank
councillor
Edwards
for
your
leadership
and
for
helping
to
make
sure
that
we
could
hear
from
folks
who
are
in
the
room.
I
want
to
thank
councillor
woo.
Certainly,
if
you
have
anything
that
you
want
to
add
I'm
happy
to
defer,
certainly
our
panels,
all
of
the
neighbourhood
associations
that
are
represented
here
this
evening
from
all
the
folks
who
stayed
to
the
very
end.
These
are
complex
issues.
H
I'm,
really
grateful
for
those
of
you
who
offered
real
concrete
solutions
on
things
that
we
can
move
forward,
whether
it
be
through
an
ordinance
whether
it
be
through
Home
Rule
petition,
whether
it
be
advocacy
through
the
budget
process.
These
are
real
important
issues
where
real
people's
lives
are
being
impacted.
Every
single
day
in
my
opening
you
know,
I
talked
about
my
own
experience
with
gentrification
and
displacement
with
my
family
in
the
south
end.
H
After
you
know,
they're
asking
they're
making
cash
offers
no
inspections,
and
so
we
are
being
preyed
upon,
but
it
is
important
that
we
stand
unified,
that
we
have
concrete
solutions
that
we
can
move
forward
to
make
sure
that
we
can
keep
our
community
here
in
Roxbury
for
Roxbury
residents
and
so
I'm
grateful
for
all
of
you,
particularly
those
who
stayed
through
the
very
end.
The
hour
is
late.
It
is
20
minutes
to
10,
but
this
was
an
important
conversation,
important
that
we
have
it
right
here
and
that
we
stayed
and
listened
to.
H
AT
You
everyone
I
just
wanted
to
be
here
to
thank
the
the
sponsors
and
the
chairwoman
here.
I
apologize
for
missing
the
first
part
of
the
meeting,
but
I
got
here
right
as
public
testimony
starts
so
I
think
in
some
ways.
I
was
here
right
on
time
and
what
we
heard
tonight
I
just
want
to
reflect
back.
That
I
am
also
very
sorry
that
we're
not
doing
enough
we're
not
doing.
We
should
be
doing
more
faster
now
and
that's
on
the
city.
AT
That's
on
all
of
us
who
have
the
the
privilege
of
being
in
City
Hall
working
day
to
day
so
I
wanted
to
be
here
until
the
end
to
take
all
that
back
with
us
and
make
sure
that
we
are
constantly
listening
constantly
bringing
those
solutions
back
because
we
all
deserve
better
as
a
city
and
what
we
need.
You
all
shared
right
here
in
this
room.
Thank
you.
B
Thank
you.
Thank
you
all
for
coming
out
here
tonight.
This
was
an
incredible
conversation
and
one
of
many
we've
had
throughout
the
city,
because
the
pain
is
real.
I,
don't
know
who
mentioned
it
before,
but
it
is
not
just
a
black
or
brown
issue.
I've
seen
working-class
or
white
folks
in
Charleston
also
feel
that
they
have
no
longer
a
place
in
Boston.
B
It
is
a
question
of
who
we're
building
for
and
I
said
said
that
many
many
times,
no
matter
how
many
units
we
try
to
throw
out
there
if
it
isn't
for
us,
then
there's
no
point
in
building
them.
The
fact
that
matter
is
this
is
an
incredible
conversation
and
the
solutions
that
you
have
proposed
are
unique
in
many
ways,
and
so
I'm
so
glad
to
come
here
and
learn
from
you.
I
agree.
I
came
to
your
house
and
in
your
house,
I
felt
very
welcome.
B
I
felt,
very
educated
and
I
feel
that
whatever
passion
is
thrown
this
way,
it
is
only
because
you
love
the
neighborhood,
you
love
Boston,
you
love
to
be
ability
to
stay
here
and
you
love
social
justice,
so
I
just
feel
more
loved.
No
matter
how
high
the
voices
get,
no
matter,
how
frustrated
folks
may
feel
and
to
answer
I
think
a
couple
questions
one.
What
can
we
do?
B
The
fact
the
matter
is
we're
organizing
we're,
organizing
ways
to
look
not
just
beyond
the
court
system,
but
how
to
actually
reframe
deconstruct
and
look
at
the
BPD
and
all
different
angles.
I
hope
you'll
show
up
with
those
conversations
when
we
open
them
up
and
we
talk
about
how
we
are
going
to
have
to
change
the
system
because
it
is
yes,
we're
gonna
have
to
take
a
project-by-project,
but
you
we
all
understand.
This
is
systemic
question.
These
are
systemic
problems
that
we
have
inherited
through
generations
that
started
since
redlining
to
this
day.
B
So,
yes,
we
are
dealing
with
that.
One
of
the
many
many
horrible
visceral
disgusting
symptoms
of
racism
and
this
this
system
needs
to
be
looked
at
at
all
different
angles.
So
we
need
to
have
a
systemic
conversation
as
well.
I
know,
there's
a
lot
of
frustration
when
it
comes
to
the
project-by-project
conversations.
The
fact
the
matter
is,
as
testified
by
a
young
woman
in
East
Boston
90%
of
the
cases
that
go
to
court
when
you,
when
people
do
manage
to
get
them
to
court,
the
neighbor
their
neighbors,
their
butters,
they
win.
B
So
a
lot
of
folks
aren't
looking
at
that.
So
I
really
appreciate
that
testimony
about
how
to
feed
shift
and
look
at
ways
in
which,
if
we
have
to
go
legal,
we
look
at
a
way
in
which
we
comprehensively
do
so
and
a
lot
of
people,
regardless
of
their
means
to
have
a
voice
in
City
Hall,
but
also
courthouse
I
want
to
say.
Thank
you
so
much
for
those
who
stayed
here.
B
The
entire
time
I
want
to
say
thank
you
for
those
who
opened
up
at
the
very
beginning,
with
literally
30
solutions
right,
Roxbury,
maid,
Roxbury
created,
30,
wonderful
solutions.
This
is
a
great
conversation.
It
will
not
be
for
nothing-
and
you
all
know
we're
up
for
reelection
next
year
too,
and
you
know
how
to
hold
us
accountable
if
you
need
to
I'm,
not
frightened
of
that
conversation
either
so
I
want
to
say
thank
you
so
much
for
being
out
here
tonight.
Thank
you
so
much
for
staying
and
thank
you
so
much
for
educating
me
personally.