A new apartment building helps knit a Boston community back together
Once cleared for highway, a parcel of land in Jamaica Plain is returning to the community one building at a time.
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Relief and joy as long elevator outage ends in Boston public housing building
Fifteen days after it broke down, the lone elevator in the Ruth Barkley Apartments in Boston's South End was fixed. -
Day 14 with no elevator for disabled and elderly residents in a Boston public housing building
With no repairs in sight, some residents who are disabled have been told they'll be moved to hotels at some point. -
Elderly and disabled residents stranded in Boston public housing apartments due to broken elevator
“This is the ninth day I’ve been held up in the apartment,” said one resident, who uses a wheelchair. “I’m trapped.” -
When home is a hotel: A single dad’s desperate search for housing
James Berger, who had hoped his hotel stay would be short, instead embarked on a months-long odyssey that included working 80-hours a week and holding out hope that he and his daughter would be able to move back to Boston. -
How college students squeeze Boston's rental market
Students renting off campus apartments have long impacted rental inventory and pricing, but with rising university enrollments and a regional housing crisis, some say addressing the shortage of dorms is urgent.
Priced Out
Competition for housing has driven up home prices to record levels across Massachusetts. Some of the biggest gains have happened in communities where residents can least afford to pay more. GBH News is exploring the impact in the series Priced Out: The fight for housing in Massachusetts.
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Renters who do nothing wrong still get evicted. Should they have the chance to wipe their records clean?
Erasing prior evictions could help renters land apartments. -
An old playbook helps tenants stay housed, at least in the short term
Four years after a landlord first tried to evict her, Frances Amador remains in her East Boston apartment. Here’s how a tenant advocacy group empowered her. -
Rising rents fuel a migration of longtime Worcester residents to small towns
Housing advocates say it's eroding Worcester’s identity as a welcoming and affordable place to live. -
Massachusetts residents fight investors to keep mobile homes affordable
Mobile homes have become a pawn for investors, threatening their affordability. But residents are pushing back. -
Mobile homes in a city? The Boston Trailer Park is an affordable surprise
Once stigmatized, manufactured housing is increasingly seen as a cost-effective solution to the affordable housing crisis.