THE ECONOMIC IMPACT of the coronavirus has hurt a lot of people, but few have been hit harder than low-income renters and communities of color. The Metropolitan Area Planning Council estimates that 61,000 households statewide don’t have enough money to pay their rent since the end of the extra unemployment benefit. In Boston, we project […]
Martin J. Walsh
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BU building big milestone in carbon neutrality
THIS WEEK, we broke ground on the most energy efficient large building in Boston’s history. Boston University’s new Center for Computing and Data Sciences is a milestone achievement for green architecture, and it’s exactly the kind of project that will help us achieve our commitment to make our entire city carbon neutral by 2050. Boston […]
Posted inArts and Culture
Bridging the representation gap
ON NOVEMBER 16, the rebuilt Dana Avenue Bridge in Hyde Park will be renamed in honor of two trailblazing sisters who lived in the neighborhood, the great suffragists and abolitionists Angelina and Sarah Grimké. This is a perfect moment in a perfect place to recognize two heroic women who sacrificed so much of their own […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
New tool needed to ensure school bus safety
EVERY MORNING and afternoon in Boston, you’ll see children, families and caretakers running to and from yellow school buses — and as the mayor and police commissioner of Boston, there is no higher responsibility than ensuring our students have the safest transportation to and from school. That’s why this legislative session, we put forth important […]
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As mayors, we need Warren’s housing bill
AFFORDABLE HOUSING and access to home ownership are cornerstones of a strong middle class. For generations, affordable rental housing was the first step in the American Dream. For generations, homeownership allowed working families to reach for new opportunities and build wealth. And across those same generations, lending discrimination, often through federally imposed “redlining” policies, helped […]
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Olympics once-in-a-century opportunity
Remarks prepared for delivery to the Boston Municipal Research Bureau. As I said last month, this isn’t Loon Mountain, it’s the city of Boston. But with 100 inches of snow in 30 days, we could have opened up our own ski resort. In fact, I stand before you at the tail end—knock on wood—of the […]