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Attendees raise concerns over BPD’s stance, program timelines By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
The first hearing on the anticipated police body camera pilot program was held last week, convened by City Councilor Andrea Campbell, chair of the Committee Public Safety and Criminal Justice. It followed on three evening community meetings held during the previous week, and some anticipated this would be a chance for a deeper dive into the issue.
Call for details
The hearing — like the prior Monday’s community meeting — largely served as an open forum for attendees to present councilors with concerns and questions. But regular advocates in the body camera debate seemed itching to move discussion forward. “There are many model policies that exist,” said Carl Williams, staff attorney of the ACLU of Massachusetts. “Many — if not every single one — of the questions that have been raised in forum are answered in the policies.” Both Williams and Segun Idowu, co-founder of the Boston Police Camera Action Team, urged councilors not to reinvent the wheel and said that discussing specific proposed policy items would make for a more productive and grounded meeting. For instance, Williams suggested, councilors could focus discussion by soliciting feedback on whether footage should be retained for three months, nine months, or another period of time and what concerns residents have about the
different options. Shorter storage times are less costly, while longer ones allow for reviewing incidents further in the past. Campbell, however, is following a different timeline than the ACLU and BPCAT, which presented their jointly-drafted policy before the city council in August 2015. Campbell said she is still in the stage of gathering community feedback so as to better inform pilot program policy development. Drafting and presenting the proposed policy for public comment will be stage two of the process. Campbell said the committee will continue to solicit more community voices. “The intention behind the community meetings was get more of those voices and make sure they, too, were a part of the policy discussions,” Campbell said at the hearing. “We will continue in that regard.” Her office was not able to tell the Banner how she will determine when she has gathered enough feedback. The body camera pilot program, initially scheduled to debut this month, has been postponed. Leila Quinn, Campbell’s director of policy and performance, told the Banner that the pilot program definitely will start this summer. She could not confirm that a usage policy will be made public or completed before the pilot begins.
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Members of BalletRox kick off the Wake Up The Earth festival with a dance around a maypole. The annual Jamaica Plain festival brings performances, vendors and political activists to the Southwest Corridor Park.
City’s racial makeup at risk in housing market Loan access disparities & high prices fuel push out By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Ten years ago, when first-time home-buyers of modest means came to the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance for mortgages, nearly a third of the mostly black and Latino buyers were able to find homes in the city. Today, says MAHA Executive Director Tom Callahan, only 10 percent do.
That reduction in the number of buyers finding homes in Boston reflects a wider trend of increasing prices, stagnating wages and displacement. Add to that a recently-released report finding that blacks and Latinos are consistently denied mortgages at rates substantially higher than whites. If the lack of access to mortgages continues, it could reshape the racial makeup of Boston, Callahan said.
“If left unchecked over a generation that [trend] could totally change the demographics of the city,” Callahan told the Banner.
Priced out
To afford a one-family condo in Boston during the first quarter of 2016, on average, a family would need an income of $116,200, according to city’s quarterly report
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Justice Sotomayor visits Boston Stresses importance of community By YAWU MILLER
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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at Wheelock College, sharing the dias with Con Salsa host Jose Masso.
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor spent much of last Saturday meeting with luminaries in Boston’s Puerto Rican community, touring the Villa Victoria public housing development and hosting a luncheon with Latino community members before giving an address at Wheelock College. The meetings and community
tour, during which she met with residents of this historically Puerto Rican development, are part of a practice Sotomayor says helps her connect her work on the Supreme Court to the everyday realities of the people who are affected by the decisions she and the other justices make from the bench. “We talk about the consequences but we don’t live them,” she said. “We have something most people don’t have. We have jobs for life.” While Sotomayor refused to
answer a question about rulings the court may make on Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, she did underscore the importance the decisions will have on the lives of the people on the island. “I pray that the decision makers understand that this is about more than just money,” she said. “This is about people and their lives.” Puerto Rican government officials argued in March before Sotomayor and her seven colleagues that the island should be able to restructure its $70 billion debt. The government
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Rep. Fox looks back on 16 terms of service Leaves legacy as skilled motivator By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
The Massachusetts House’s longest-serving woman is preparing to step down. After 16 terms in the state legislature, Seventh Suffolk District state Rep. Gloria Fox decided not to run for reelection. She told the Banner she intends to take some time for her family and to travel, before continuing work with several national groups. “It was a labor of love,” she said of her time in office. “I left because I felt I needed some time for myself.” Fox’s district extends from Audubon Circle near Boston University to parts of Back Bay, the Fenway and Roxbury.
Health and human services
During her years in office, Fox has advocated on issues such as health, foster care, criminal justice reform and economic development of her community. Looking back, she highlighted her health advocacy, including helping establish a commission whose recommendations on health disparities became incorporated into Massachusetts’ health care reform law. “I’ve been very, very active on health and health disparity issues,” she said. Fox also is a legislator who understands the value of human services and has advocated strongly, said Michael Weekes, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers. Her more than 20-year relationship with the Council predates even his own tenure, Weekes said. “Rep. Fox has been a stalwart advocate for human services in the community, in addition to social and economic justice for those with less voice,” Weekes told the Banner. “When bills came up for additional increases in salaries for the lowest paid workers, she’s been a voice to help push those through and advocate in support.” Last month the Caring Force coalition of human services workers and supporters awarded
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In April, state Rep. Gloria Fox received The Caring Force’s highest award, The Caring Bear, for her support of human services. Standing with her are Providers’ Council President Michael Weekes (left) and Caring Force Committee Chair Mike Moloney. Fox their highest honor, the Caring Bear award.
Powerful voice
As a legislator, Fox was known most for her motivational abilities and strong presence in the community, said former-Senator Bill Owens, who was Fox’s first campaign manager. “The greatest impact that Gloria had on the community in her terms in office was she was a motivator,” he told the Banner. She inspired constituents to advocate and push for change, he said. “She would motivate them to go out on their own to do some of the things that needed to be done.” “Her passionate articulation of values for fairness and empowerment really help to energize our campaigns to strengthen the human services community in Boston and also outside,” Weekes said. He recalled in particular a speech Fox gave a few years ago
before the Caring Force coalition of human services workers and supporters to encourage them to advocate to their legislators. State Rep. Byron Rushing first met Fox when she was an organizer working with Boston Housing Authority tenants. He and Owens said that among her strengths has been her responsiveness to constituents. Fox made it known that she was accessible and brought visibility to residents’ concerns, they said. “She would go into the communities to let people know who she was and what she was trying to do, and that is significant,” Owens recalled. “She’s developed a very close relationship to her constituency,” Rushing told the Banner. “She has had most of her influence by raising issues that are major concerns to poor people, working class people, especially poor and working class people of color, and has been most influential in that by talking about
those issues and raising those issues in the public so there has to be a response from the bureaucracy.”
First office
Fox began as a community organizer, and got to know many residents while serving as executive director of the Roxbury-North Dorchester Area Planning Council, she said. She first entered political office in 1985, when she ran in a special election for her current seat. Doris Bunte, who was vacating the position, and Mel King called upon her to run, Fox said.
Looking national
After leaving office, Fox plans to continue community involvement and advocate on health, human services and foster care in particular, she said. “I intend to be active on the national side,” she said. She will continue her involvement in Women in Government, the National
Black Caucus of State Legislators and the National Foundation of Woman Legislators. Among the next projects on her list: Women in Government looks to establish a mentoring network that connects women with governmental experience to women seeking to enter the political realm. “We don’t have the network of women we should have of people who have served in government,” Fox said. “That’s the work that I want to continue to do.” She also aims to work on health disparities on a national level. “I’ll be busy,” she said.
Who’s next?
On November 8, voters will select the next Seventh Suffolk District representative. So far three candidates have declared their candidacy: Mary-dith Tuitt, aide to Fox; Chynah Tyler, former aide to Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz; and Monica Cannon, community organizer.
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Forum examines Roxbury’s surging real estate market BY THE NUMBERS
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Back in the 1960s, when homes in Roxbury could be purchased for as little as $2,000, demand was in the midst of a decades-long slide that mirrored national trends of urban disinvestment and growing black populations in U.S. cities. Now, with multi-family homes selling for north of $700,000, most residents of the predominantly black and Latino neighborhood can no longer afford to buy there. After decades of white flight, well-heeled buyers are back, while working-class Roxbury residents are contending with rising rents and unattainable home prices. “There is so much happening in such a short amount of time in this market,” said Dudley Square Main Streets Executive Director Joyce Stanley, a longtime Roxbury resident. Stanley spoke during Perspectives on Roxbury/Dorchester Real Estate, a forum at the Bolling Municipal Building sponsored by the NAACP Boston Branch and the Mandrel Company, a Dorhester-based real estate firm. Stanley detailed the history of housing trends in the Roxbury market, looking back to the 1930s when blacks first began buying there. She recalled the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s federally-funded urban renewal program, which tore out vast swaths of Roxbury real estate in the Southwest Corridor, the present location of Melnea Cass Boulevard and the Madison Park neighborhood. While the city has undertaken various efforts to redevelop the vacant parcels of land left by urban renewal and the wave of arson that plagued the neighborhood in the 1970s and ’80s, the pace of development has picked up during the push to build new housing under the administration of Mayor Martin Walsh. “Developers are trying to get as many houses on a parcel as possible,” Stanley said. “Most developers
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Real estate broker Terence Moreau delivers a presentation on housing trends in Roxbury and Dorchester during a forum at the Bruce Bolling Municipal Building. are turning to condos.” Mandrel Group Real estate broker Terrance Moreau agreed that large single- and multi-family homes in Roxbury will likely undergo condo conversions in the coming months and years. “The movement of the real estate market is in favor of condos,” he said. “It’s the easiest way to resolve our issues of supply without new construction.”
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baby-boomers leave the suburbs seeking scaled-down urban living. Many white buyers looking at Roxbury are priced out of adjacent neighborhoods like the South End and Jamaica Plain. Moreau stressed the fact that there’s little inventory in Roxbury, as long-time residents are holding onto their homes. The longer they wait, the higher their sales price is likely to be.
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income in Roxbury at just under $30,000, there are few in the neighborhood who can afford it. The 15 single-family homes that sold in Roxbury last year went for an average of $426,867, compared to an average of $744,897 in Boston. The pressure on the Roxbury real estate market comes as millennial college graduates move into cities like Boston seeking easy commutes to high-tech jobs, and
“It’s safe to assume that there will be appreciation in Dorchester and Roxbury, even if the market stabilizes,” Moreau said. In addition to Stanley and Moreau, Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation Economic Development Director Abadur Rahman and Director of Community Organizing Jason Boyd spoke about the role of non-profits in neighborhood stabilization. “We have seen demographic changes in the neighborhood,” Boyd said, acknowledging gentrification in the NDC’s Dorchester catchment area. “We’re committed to seeing Codman Square remain a vibrant, African American and Afro-Caribbean neighborhood of residents and small business owners.” Last week’s meeting was the first of three planned to examine real estate trends in Boston’s black community. A second was scheduled for Wednesday, May 11 and the final for Wednesday, May 18.
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Racial equality not a Trump priority The issue of America’s race relations often comes to the fore during campaigns to elect a president. In 2008 and 2012, the campaigns of Barack Obama aroused the antagonism of the bigots. In the 2012 election Donald Trump established his credentials as the champion of white supremacy. His leadership of the “birther campaign” paved the way for him to emerge as Bigot-in-Chief. Now thoughtful voters will have to determine whether they will challenge the concept of racial supremacy this November or will leave the nation still impaired with invidious racism. Trump has demonstrated his mastery of public opinion. His birther attack on Barack Obama was designed to mobilize a constituency for his political emergence. It should be noted that during the present campaign Trump only casually mentioned that Ted Cruz could not legally seek the presidency because he was born in Canada. Some legal experts have opined that Cruz did not meet the constitutional requirement of being native-born, but Trump still failed to press the point. The birther ploy was primarily an effective tactic to mobilize racial hostility. While racial hostility has been prevalent in America, the income disparity has been a provocation. With wages stagnant since 1979, workers have become angry and pessimistic about their future welfare. The widening wealth gap has made whites who had tumbled from the middle class quick to blame others for their financial difficulties. African Americans were often cited as the cause of the nation’s wealth gap, even though blacks were suffering even more than whites. Trump clearly plans to enhance his support among the bigots. He has adroitly avoided any
opportunity to renounce the support of Ku Klux Klan members like David Duke. He has encouraged supporters to attack protesters, many of whom are black. He even offered to pay the legal expenses of a white supporter who was arrested for sucker punching a black protester in North Carolina as he was being led away by the police. It would be a mistake to conclude that the racially biased support for Trump is only a Southern phenomenon. In the Massachusetts Republican primary on March 1, Trump tallied 49.3 percent of the vote with five candidates contending. Up to that time, this was Trump’s greatest primary victory result. There is no indication that the economic issues driving the racial hostility will change substantially by the November election. The Hamilton Project of the Brookings Institution has found that full time employment for men without bachelor’s degree has fallen from 76 percent in 1990 to 68 percent in 2013, and wages have also fallen for men with no college degree. Exit polls indicate that undereducated white men are a major source of Trump support. And according to a Rand Corporation survey, voters who believe that “people like me don’t have any say about what government does” are 86.5 percent more likely to support Trump. There seems to be very little that African Americans or major Democratic Party leaders can do to change those circumstances that drive support for Trump. The prospect of a Trump presidency should be so horrifying to African Americans that there has to be a massive commitment to vote in November, and to vote for the Democratic candidate.
As an aging baby boomer brought up in the ’50s and ’60s and taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph here in Boston at various Catholic schools, students were never taught of the role of the Church with the role of institutionalized slavery. While we were taught in history classes about slavery in America, omitted from it all was any role played by Catholic institution. As students we were left to the assumption that the Catholic Church in America was anti-slavery but now it turns out that was not the case. Now I wonder just how courageous those priests were not only PreCivil War but also Pre-Civil Rights
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Act 1964. Did the US Catholic Church set up segregated Masses? Did we stand out in opposition to slavery and Jim Crow? Or did the Catholic hierarchy look the other way. In a NY Times news story in April, we found out that the Jesuits found nothing immoral about owning slaves back in the early 19th century. As a 21st century Catholic, I am appalled by the now exposed story of Jesuits owning 272 slaves and putting them up for public auction into the hellish life of southern style slavery. Treating folks like property I believe has always been immoral. That Jesuits could divide up human beings based on race and color shows just how far religious institutions roamed
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from the message of Christ. Thanks to great record keeping. The Jesuits keep a record of every slave sold on the auction block. Many of these slaves over the pass 250 are actual known by name. Most of them still Catholics too. I believe the Catholic Church of America needs to recognize our sad history with the use of slaves to build up our many great Catholic institutions of higher learning. Slavery is a sin. You cannot justify it. You must oppose it. We must leave our old attitudes behind and face up to our past.
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By LEE A. DANIELS Ted Cruz is gone — and good riddance. The Texas senator, a hypocritical, mean-spirited bully, fully deserved his humiliating defeat by Donald Trump in the May 3rd Indiana GOP primary. Unfortunately, the social and political poison that made a Cruz candidacy viable for so long isn’t gone. Donald Trump’s success completes for the moment the most astonishing act of self-destruction in the history of American politics: that of the Republican Party itself. Some GOP officeholders and operatives are now crying in their teacups about Trump — with a few even publicly pledging not to vote for him. But the GOP’s leadership has only itself to blame. Consider this: The Republican Party is about to nominate a man of dubious political beliefs who has never before held any political office and whose personal life has, according to his many boasts over the years, violated several tenets of supposedly sacred conservative “values.” Yet, he has vanquished a Republican primary field that included four current governors, four current senators, and the son and brother of the Party’s last two presidents. And Trump conquered the field not by reasoned discourse and a coherent policy platform, but via a reality-show-like campaign that appealed to the worst instincts and attitudes of a large segment of Republican voters. That “winning” approach was fully on display in the weeks leading up to the Indiana primary. By then, the once-smarmy public “friendship” of Cruz and Trump had degenerated into a venomous display of cesspool politics. Trump’s scurrilous references to Cruz’s wife and father provoked Cruz to describe Trump as “a pathological liar,” “utterly amoral,” “a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen,” “a serial philanderer ... [who] boasts about it ....” In addition to what it says about the character of both men, we ought to see this deep dive into cesspool politics in its broader dimension: as a blowback of the immoral, win-at-all-costs attitude Republicans had been cultivating within the party for years. It should have been clear to them years ago that the profound intolerance and irrationality they stoked among GOP voters to try to wreck the Obama administration would sooner or later come home to roost. In fact, as soon as Obama took office, the GOP’s “Obama Derangement Syndrome” began to wreak havoc among Republicans as a bloc of GOP voters applied a no-holds-barred intolerance to Republican officeholders who they deemed insufficiently extreme and voted them out of office. That descent into extremism also led to Cruz’s 2012 U.S. Senate victory, and, he thought, gave him the ammunition to begin running for the White House — by denigrating the GOP’s congressional leadership — from the moment he arrived in Washington. A year earlier, Trump’s grab for attention in 2011 on a “platform” mimicking the GOP “Birthers”—who claimed that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. and therefore wasn’t eligible to be President—had revealed just how irrational and uninterested in logic and facts a large segment of the GOP electorate was willing to be. Obama’s re-election and the major achievements he continued to score despite Republican control of Congress intensified the erosion of political sense and common decency within the party. Cruz will now be overshadowed by the focus on Trump. But it shouldn’t be forgotten that (albeit Ohio Governor John Kasich, who ended his campaign less than a day after Cruz did) they were the last men standing in the GOP primary. For they’re two sides of the same coin: Cruz tried to capture the Presidency by running against his own party from the inside, while Trump, armed with his own financial war chest, was raiding it from outside. Now that both parties’ nominees are set, expect more cesspool politics from Trump and the horde of overtly racist and sexist individuals and groups that comprise part of his winning coalition. Remember: He defeated the other primary candidates by using the most naked appeals to bigotry of any presidency-seeker since the segregationist ticket of the Dixiecrat Party of 1948. That’s what thrills the 40 percent or so of Republican voters who constitute his base. Indeed, the scurrilous and sexist t-shirts and other merchandise that are the artifacts of conservatives’ “Hillary Derangement Syndrome” are already being hawked at Trump’s rallies. Despite his half-hearted promises to be “presidential,” cesspool politics is the only kind of politics Donald Trump knows how to play.
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It’s keeping people from staying in Boston. Without affordable housing for middle class and lower class people, everybody’s going to end up leaving.
They should have more affordable housing for people. People get out of college or high school and can’t afford rent. I don’t think my grandchildren will be able to afford to live here.
Cleo Freeman
Twenty years ago, everybody was eager to move back to the suburbs. Now they’re making this city higher class. Everything is less affordable. Pretty soon, Dudley’s going to be for the upper class.
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It’s making a lot of people homeless. I’m a street worker. I see a lot of displaced people.
It’s terrible. Prices are too high. A lot of people have left the city.
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franchised communities. Logan will help strengthen both existing campaigns as well as create new strategies for developing a broader donor base for Community Works. She seeks to build communities that will more effectively address social justice concerns. “The board of directors is excited that Hajar has agreed to be our new executive director. This represents a new chapter for Community Works, and we invite our partners to continue to be part of this journey with us,” noted Craig Norberg-Bohm, Community Works’ Board Chairperson. Founded in 1982, Community Works is a cooperative fundraising effort among community-based and social justice oriented organizations. Its goal is to develop a stable and growing source of support for member organizations, primarily through partnership with local businesses as part of their employee giving campaigns.
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HAJAR LOGAN Hajar Logan has been appointed Executive Director of Community Works, a fundraising collaborative for community-based organizations. Logan resides in Dorchester and brings a long commitment to social justice work. Her range of talents and skills will enhance outreach and visibility for this 35-year-old organization that raises funds for a collaborative of local grassroots organizations, primarily through employee charitable giving programs. Logan was a business development and organizational management consultant for more than 10 years, where she gained experience developing change processes and business development structures for small business growth. As an economic development practitioner, she spent several years developing a model for economic empowerment that focuses on community economic development in disen-
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Commissioner William Evans, along with members of the BPD and members of the Social Justice Task Force originally were expected at the Tuesday hearing. That would have marked the first time Evans has appeared to answer public questions on the pilot. But due to a wake for a BPD officer taking place on the same day, Campbell said she asked BPD and task force members not to attend the hearing. The absence of key decision makers left some questions lingering. “We are here in an echo chamber, speaking to ourselves,” Idowu said, adding that the hearing should have been postponed until they could join. Alex Marthews is the president of Digital 4th, a coalition that advocates for electronic communication privacy and currently promotes a bill for statewide adoption of body cameras. At the hearing, Marthews expressed concerns about Evans’ abilities to impartially structure and assess the pilot. “Commissioner Evans seems like he’s had to be dragged into this,” Marthews said. “Someone who thinks [body cameras] are really not needed is not going to create a good policy.” He charged that Evans has exaggerated the difficulty of crafting policy and that the BPD has not been as open in engaging with the community on this as police in other cities have been. “He’s conveying to the press that this is all terribly complicated … but whether or not he’s willing to think these things out, other
people have,” Marthews said. In April, Evans told the Boston Herald that he did not see body cameras as necessary, a statement that many supporters of such a program took as a red flag. “I know the momentum is for everyone having them, although I don’t really think we need them,” Evans said. “I think we’ve shown what kind of a class-act department we are, but we are going to give them a try and see if the results are positive.” Lt. Detective Mike McCarthy, BPD’s director of media relations, said in a statement to the Banner that Evans does not oppose cameras. An independent third party, Anthony Braga, will perform the analysis and interpretation of the pilot, McCarthy added. Braga is a professor of evidence-based criminology at Rutgers University and the soon-to-be director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. “The commissioner has never opposed the program. He has been supportive of it from day one,” McCarthy said, adding that, “The commissioner is confident that Dr. Braga will provide an unbiased review of the program.” Additionally, McCarthy pointed out that the policy’s development is influenced by the Social Justice Task Force, which comprises six members of BPD command staff, including Evans, as well as 17 community members invited by him. At the hearing, Campbell promised that the names of the task force members will be made public and assured attendees that not all members have the same view point as Evans. Throughout the hearing, Campbell promised attendees that there will be another hearing this
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Segun Idowu, co-founder of BPCAT, said the hearing should have been postponed until the police commissioner could join. month with the BPD present, although she noted it will have to be fit into a schedule already packed with budget meetings. Campbell also urged attendees not to criticize Evans for his absence at the prior week’s three community meetings. She said the meetings were not organized by the BPD, but by the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice and the Social Justice Task Force.
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cameras originated out of public demand for greater police accountability following the August 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri by Officer Darren Wilson. At the hearing and community meetings some presented cameras not just as a ward against misconduct but also an asset to all officers. At the Roslindale community meeting, Jack McDevitt, member of the Social Justice Task Force, said that footage is a valuable training tool. For instance, video of traffic stops can reveal ways that the officers conducting them sometimes put their bodies in front of the car, in danger. And while videos of contested incidents sometimes show officer misconduct, other times footage can also exonerate them. McCarthy said the police are aware of the value of capturing interactions on film: “We have already seen the benefit of having
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BPS lays out new plans to combat bias, achievement gaps By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Boston Pubic Schools officials charged with promoting equity and closing achievement gaps appeared at a budget hearing with city councilors last week. They were joined by one parent, eighth grade students from the Patrick Lyndon School (via video call) and the Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts (via written testimony). Both councilors and members of the public expressed fears that the city’s current budget proposal may be insufficient to maintain needed levels of programs and services at some schools and to expand the work of the Office of Equity and Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps in important directions. “I’m curious if your budget will be big enough for all the things you envision doing,” City Councilor Andrea Campbell said following the presentation by Colin Rose, assistant superintendent of the Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps. Meanwhile, school department representatives avoided making requests for funding. Instead, the BPS officials focused on outlining progress achieve thus far, along with planned initiatives.
Office of Equity
BPS’s Office of Equity is responsible for responding to allegations of bias and discrimination, providing religious and disability accommodations and taking proactive steps to create an equally welcoming environment for all adults and students in the system. Assistant Superintendent Becky Shuster told hearing attendees that Have you Have youever everfelt felt sadsad forforlong long periods periodsofoftime? time? Have Havethese these feelings feelingsofof
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BPS Superintendent Tommy Chang spoke before the City Council during a budget hearing. Flanking him are Becky Shuster (left), assistant superintendent of the Office of Equity and Colin Rose (right) assistant superintendent of the Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps. traditionally, most of the Office of Equity’ s investigations have involved complaints made by school employees. But this has been a year marked by student activism, from #BLACKatBLS to high school students’ thousands-strong walkout to protest budget cuts. Now, Shuster said, the office is taking a more proactive focus on students to increase their awareness of her office, the equity-based resources offered and their rights as students. One initiative includes a mobile app, launched in partnership with the Boston Student Advisory Council, that allows students to report grievances directly to the Office of Equity. The app is one example of how the Office seeks to become more techsavvy. Officials also plan to launch a website and recently implemented a digital case management system. Outreach measures to students,
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educators and administrators seem to be working, Shuster said. “Our efforts to get the word out have been effective because our phone has been ringing off the hook,” Shuster said. Further Equity initiatives include updating policies, creating more detailed response protocols for staff to follow when alerted to incidents and new professional training. Principals and headmasters are undergoing an Equity Protocol Training, which will teach methods for addressing and preventing discrimination and bias. So far, 87 percent have completed it, and BPS aims to bring this to 100 percent by the end of this fiscal year. Additionally, the office has selected 24 schools where the diversity among teaching staff does not match well with student demographics and is taking proactive measures to ensure the hiring pool and selections are racially diverse. The office also currently is investigating all reported incidents of alleged racial or ethnic bias at Boston Latin School that are outside the scope of the original BPS investigation, Shuster said.
Budgeting for equity
Shuster said the budget proposal is enough to sustain current staffing — herself and two full-time employees— but that the office has relied on interns and a college student to meet this year’s increased workload. “We had enough of an increase in our budget to be able to retain all of our current employees with no cuts,” she said. “We are utilizing interns fully.” The office, she said, is operating at peak capacity. By the end of this fiscal year, it aims to complete 80 percent of its current cases, prioritizing those filed by students.
Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps
Academic achievement gaps between groups that are traditionally disempowered — students who are black, Latino, economically disadvantaged, English language learners or with disabilities — and their peers are sizeable and have persisted for a long time, said Colin Rose, assistant superintendent of the Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps. These demographics on average show lower scores on grades 3-8 PARCC and grade 10 MCAS scores, lower rates of high school graduation and higher rates of suspensions compared to white and Asian student groups, according to BPS data. The performance gaps are a call to action, reflecting that sufficient opportunities are not being offered to all students, Rose said. “Unfortunately, those who are well-adjusted to the dominant culture will do well in a culture designed for that,” while others will not, he said. “Have we given these [other] groups and individuals the opportunities they need to succeed?” Although a policy for tackling achievement gaps has existed for a decade, “we really truly haven’t implemented that policy in the way we should be [doing],” Rose said. A more extensive policy is expected to be released in June that will give all departments targeted goals.
Targeted programming
Another critical step, Rose said, is to attack cultural and structural barriers that he says prevent traditionally marginalized groups from fully engaging at school. Rose’s solution is a three-pronged approach involving programs targeted at boosting performance of specific student groups, professional training for making
more cultural diverse classrooms and schools and a system for measuring progress. Rose proposed targeted programming specifically for black and Latino boys in grades K-12. He and BPS Superintendent Tommy Chang are also seeking to provide 300 new seats in exam school entrance test tutoring programs to children at traditionally underrepresented schools in Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and parts of East Boston. Another initiative would focus on combating chronic absenteeism in elementary school. Kindergarten classes in particular tend to have high levels of absenteeism, and learning gaps that emerge at a young age often only widen as time goes on if not addressed. According to Chang, boys of color living in poverty are 17 times more likely not to graduate from high school if they are not reading on level by grade 3. One strategy for handling absenteeism that some schools have found effective, Rose said, is to gradually ease children back into learning after a prolonged absence, as opposed to returning them to the classroom immediately. These schools first provide out-of-classroom instruction to help the students catch up.
Staff and environment
Necessary professional development, Rose told the Banner, involves having employees consider their conscious or unconscious biases and assumptions and how the employees can better meet student needs. Adults in BPS cannot ignore that students are diverse, but must acknowledge that cultural differences have an impact and should be treated as a strength, Rose advised. Other ways to make schools more welcoming include creating an environment that is consciously multicultural, he said. This could mean featuring various cultures and races in the pictures and murals that decorate hallways, giving students collaborative group work and teaching history that goes past just a Eurocentric perspective. Currently, Rose is developing a rubric to give schools guidelines on such steps they can take, and working with the Annenberg Institute of School Reform at Brown University to identify measurable indicators of what he calls “cultural proficiency.” The Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps currently is a one-person team: Rose. He expects to be able to bring on two more members next fiscal year, including a director of cultural proficiency.
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Students make the case for history By YAWU MILLER
Second-grader Quinn Bowles made the case for maintaining funding for history instruction in the Boston Public Schools. “We need to know what happened in the past so we don’t make the same mistakes again,” he said, testifying during a hearing in the City Council’s Ianella Chamber. Budgetary constraints and the pressure schools face to raise students’ scores on math and English language arts MCAS tests have whittled down history and social studies instruction at Boston middle and high schools. Students and teachers testified on the importance of history during the hearing. “We frequently talk about the achievement gap between students of color and their white peers, or between students in urban and suburban schools, as a matter of ELA and math scores,” said Neema Avashia, a John W. McCormack Middle School civics teacher. “But what we leave out of the conversation are the gaps in social and cultural capital that occur for our students because their education has been narrowed down to the tested subjects, leaving
no room for the kind of capital that comes from learning art, history, civics and music.” Donnie Tran, assistant superintendent of professional learning, stressed that there will not be cuts among the three staff members who support history and social studies in the district’s central office. Jackson said the staff ’s $90,000 budget was small, given their mission of developing curricula for history and social studies. “I’m taken aback by how small it is,” he said. “A budget is a values statement, and there’s not a lot there.”
city, it’s a travesty that we have only one teacher of African American history,” said Jessica Tang, a former teacher and current Boston Teachers Union organizer. Lena Papagiannis, a history teacher at the John D. O’Bryant school, said the prospect of cuts to history may be dissuading teachers from obtaining certification. “Why would teachers invest in training and professional development if they think their position
will be cut next year?” she said. The budget hearing, the first of several scheduled by the council’s Education Committee, gave the teachers and students a chance to make the case for preserving history and social studies classes. City councilors Tito Jackson, Sal LaMattina, Anissa Essaibi George, Andrea Campbell and Ayanna Pressley questioned them about the department’s commitment to the disciplines and expressed their support. “It’s because of history and social studies — because of what I
learned — that I’m here today,” LaMattina said. While it’s unclear what may be cut this year, many teachers said they feared a long-term trend of cuts could eliminate history and social studies altogether. “If we don’t take action, there is going to be a generation of young people who lack the historical understandings and critical thinking skills that underpin effective advocacy, and serve as the foundation for continued progress towards a more just and equitable society,” Avashia said.
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Tran told the councilors that 60 percent of the instructors teaching history and social studies are not certified to teach in those subject areas. Jackson said he is concerned about the lack of certification. Many teachers who testified said history and social studies positions have been cut over the years as their schools’ budgets face more and more strain. While in past years the school department expanded social studies and added civics courses, those gains have been reversed in recent years. “In a majority people-of-color
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$17 per hour min wage promises a healthier city, officials say BY THE NUMBERS
By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Fight for 15 activists have made headlines during the past year with calls for a $15 minimum hourly wage. Last week, the Boston Public Health Commission unveiled a report that could add fuel to the cause. After analyzing the city’s nearly 20-yearold Living Wage Ordinance, the BPHC concluded that the actual hourly wage needed for a family to survive in Boston is closer to $17. Subsequently, the BPHC recommended the living wage be raised and that the LWO’s purview be expanded so more employers are required to pay at this level. If enacted, the reform would bring significant physical and mental health benefits to city residents, the report predicted. At the behest of labor advocates, community activists and faith leaders, the Living Wage Ordinance was passed in 1998. Its goal: to ensure those Boston workers falling under its coverage were compensated at least enough to live at the poverty line. But the new analysis reveals that the LWO was applied only to a very limited segment of workers and currently lags behind the financial needs of residents facing today’s higher costs. “The living wage ordinance was originally passed almost 20 years ago to give workers a better chance at making a living in Boston,” said
Expected results from raising the Living Wage Ordinance from approximately $14 to approximately $17:
43 percent drop in diabetes 11.5 percent drop in adult asthma 9.5 percent drop in hypertension 62 percent drop in persistent sadness 30 percent drop in persistent anxiety 30 percent drop in food insecurity and hunger
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Monica Valdes Lupis, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, presented a health impact assessment of the living wage ordinance. Monica Valdes Lupi, BPHC executive director, in a press release. “While it may have succeeded initially in achieving its goal, it now falls short.” Boosting the living wage from $14.11 to approximately $17 per hour could significantly reduce rates of some chronic diseases and
increase workers’ quality of life, according to the BPHC report. The BPHC anticipates a decrease in hunger, mental health conditions such as persistent sadness and anxiety and diseases such as diabetes and asthma. According to the American Diabetes Association, in 2010 diabetes was the seventh
leading cause of death in the U.S. People of color particularly stand to gain from a more robust Living Wage Ordinance, the report states, as they are disproportionately represented among Boston’s low-wage workers.
Limits of LWO
The LWO requires that certain employers pay their workers at least $14.11 per hour. In its current state, the LWO only applies to vendors that hold service contracts with the city, and only establishes a base wage for employees working under those contracts. Any other employees the vendors have are not protected. Employers with contracts below a certain value — originally $100,000, then reduced to $25,000 in 2001 — or with a number of full-time employees below a certain amount, also are exempt. Only 600 workers currently benefit from the LWO under these criteria. About half of those are minorities. Nearly half of the LWO-assisted workers are female and more than a quarter are parents.
A survival wage
The BPHC report recommends several changes. First, $14.11 is no longer enough for families to afford life’s necessities in Boston, it states. Even the the $15 per hour for which many activists have been clamoring for does not go far enough. Based on 2013 data, for a family of four to earn an income “just sufficient to cover housing, childcare, transportation and other basic needs,” in Boston, two members must be employed full-time in jobs that pay at least $16.96 per hour. This wage is expected to leave nothing left over for retirement savings, emergencies or large one-time expenditures such as medical bills or car repairs, the report states. For a single parent with a toddler-aged child to afford such basic necessities, he or she must earn $25 per hour. The minimum wage in Massachusetts currently is $10 per hour.
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BPHC also proposes widening the scope of the LWO to apply to quasi-independent city agencies,
“businesses that hold large leases with the city, business that benefit from tax credits and those that receive city-subsidized financing,” as well as to cover all city employees. An expansion also may bring LWO coverage to more minorities. Although low-wage jobs in Boston disproportionately are held by people of color, Bostonians working in the industries most likely to be subject to the current LWO are primarily white, according to the report. This group of workers is 66 percent white, 16 percent black and 15 percent Latino.
Health benefits
The report estimates that an increase in the living wage from $14 to $17 would cause a 43 percent reduction in the number of Bostonians suffering from diabetes, 11.5 percent reduction in asthma sufferers and 9.5 percent in those afflicted with hypertension. Cases of food insecurity and hunger are expected to fall by 30 percent. In part, these benefits could be achieved by reducing how many extra hours or jobs people have to work to get by. More free time means more time for exercise and an expected reduction in stress — which in turn reduces damaging stress hormones. It could mean more time to cook at home and seek out healthy foods. It would mean more money for purchasing fruits and vegetables as well as medicine and health care. The latter is especially significant: According to national data, the rate of asthma among black adults is higher than the national average, and blacks are more likely than whites to report cost as an obstacle to seeing a primary care physician or getting medication. Blacks are nearly three times more likely to die as a result of asthma than whites, a disparity especially troubling as “early and adequate treatment has made asthma deaths by and large preventable,” the report stated. The report’s authors also anticipated that if LWO-covered wages increase to $17 per hour, the number of people reporting sadness that persists for more than 30 days would drop by 62 percent, while the number reporting persistent anxiety would drop by 30 percent. In 2013, a higher percentage of residents with household incomes below $25,000 reported persistent sadness or anxiety than did residents with household incomes of $50,000 or more. Reports also were higher among those receiving rental assistance than those not, and more public housing residents reported persistent sadness. According to a city press release, Walsh and health officials will explore ways to expand and better enforce the LWO.
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City-funded housing vouchers proposed ON THE WEB
By SANDRA LARSON
Affordable housing and homelessness advocates, along with a majority of Boston city councilors, are calling for the next city budget to allocate $5 million for a new “housing first” voucher program. The city-funded vouchers would provide rental assistance for homeless families and individuals in Boston in the face of continued funding cuts and long wait lists for federal and state voucher programs. “In the face of reduced federal spending, we need to get creative,” said District 8 City Councilor Josh Zakim. “We are spending on social services for people experiencing homelessness. We have several thousand homeless BPS students, and the city is spending money to transport them to and from school. Five million dollars is not a small amount of money, but given the investment we’re making in our schools, we’re losing part of that if kids are going home to motels at night.” Zakim was one of nine city councilors to sign an April 7 letter urging Mayor Martin Walsh to include the voucher program in his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2017, which starts July 1. Echoing the arguments of local housing advocates, Zakim told the Banner that directing funds toward stable housing for currently homeless families and individuals would be offset by reductions in spending on the many problems that come with homelessness. “With the ripple effect, it will pay for itself,” he said.
Stability
Housing first refers to an approach that prioritizes providing homeless people permanent housing as quickly as possible, creating a base of stability from which they can get their lives back on track or utilize other supportive services. A fact sheet distributed by the Massachusetts Alliance of HUD Tenants (MAHT), the Save Our Section 8 City Policy Committee and the Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee refers to a recent HUD study indicating that “providing rental vouchers for Housing First is at least or more cost-effective in reducing homelessness as either emergency shelters or supportive housing.” In a voucher program, a government agency pays the difference between what low-income
CITY OF BOSTON proposed FY17 budget: cityofboston.gov/recommendedbudget FOLDER OF ADVOCATES’ voucher plan documents: cityofboston.gov/recommend edbudget tenants can afford to pay and a “fair market” rent. Tenants typically are required to pay about one-third of their income toward the rent. The city of Boston does not currently have a local voucher program, but administers a limited supply of state and federally-funded (Section 8) vouchers. The initial $5 million would provide assistance for an estimated 350 to 400 homeless individuals and families in Boston, with a mix of project-based and tenant-based (mobile) vouchers. Advocates hope that this pilot program could be sustained and expanded after the first year. They also say a city-funded voucher program could allow the Boston Housing Authority to set rents and payment standards that more accurately reflect the steep rents in Boston proper.
“We are analyzing it very carefully,” Dillon told the Banner. “We need to know that whatever funding source we have will be consistent. Once you start providing a family rental assistance, that assistance needs to be sustainable.” Dillon said that housing vouchers are an eligible use for Community Preservation Act funds, but noted that the CPA has a state-prescribed system for managing the money, with an independent managing committee, so it is unknown what specific funding priorities would be selected.
Second Latino Men’s Breakfast held at the Tobin Community Center
Not in budget
The mayor’s proposed FY2017 budget presented to the council last month does not include the voucher program, though it includes a $1.3 million increase in other programs to address family and individual homelessness such as emergency shelter, short-term rapid re-housing rental assistance and improved intake assessment of those arriving at homelessness shelters. The council’s Ways and Means Committee is hosting a series of hearings to air various funding needs and concerns. The budget will likely undergo revisions between now and the council’s final approval June 30. Supporters of the city vouchers cite the model of Washington, D.C.’s Local Rent Supplement Program, in place since 2007 and funded primarily through that city’s general appropriations and administered by the DC Housing Authority. LRSP has expanded to serve 3,248 households earning less than 30 percent of Area Median Income and costs $37 million annually, according to the Boston advocacy groups’ fact sheet. Michael Kane, director of MAHT and executive director of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants, noted that $5 million represents less than 0.2 percent of Boston’s $2.8 billion annual budget. He suggested that the Community
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Preservation Act, if Boston voters approve it in November, would provide a stable funding source to continue and expand the program. The CPA, which Walsh supports, would allow a 1 percent property tax surcharge to raise funds for affordable housing, parks and historic preservation. Kane questioned the idea that $5 million for addressing homelessness would be a burden for the
city, particularly in light of the generous concessions the city made to lure General Electric to relocate its headquarters here. “Of course they can come up with $5 million if they want to do it,” Kane said. Sheila Dillon, Boston’s chief of housing and director of the Department of Neighborhood Development, said the DND is pleased with the numbers in the mayor’s budget for housing and homelessness programs so far, but is reviewing the voucher proposal.
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Men from all across Boston joined together for the second Latino Men’s Breakfast an monthly opportunity to connect with other Latino Men from Boston hosted at the Tobin Community Center and convened by Gibran Rivera, Felix G. Arroyo and William Morales.
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A beloved hobby can feel like a mini vacation from everyday life. Whether it’s gardening for relaxation, photography as a creative outlet or computer coding to exercise the brain, hobbies serve as an escape from stress and boredom. What if rather than a hobby being your escape, it was what you did for a career? “When you do what you love, it doesn’t feel like work. However, people are intimidated by the idea of transitioning a hobby into this type of dream,” says Jim Salmon, vice president of business services at Navy Federal Credit Union. “Becoming a successful entrepreneur doesn’t have to be difficult with the right drive and passion.” Salmon shares some expert tips based on best practices he’s observed through his close relationship with entrepreneurial clients: 1. Take your time. Becoming a successful entrepreneur doesn’t mean you have to drop everything and devote all your time to starting a business. In fact, research shows the opposite: People who keep their day jobs while starting companies are a third less likely to fail than those who abandon their full-time jobs. Instead, they’re tinkering, researching and cautiously testing things out to see if their idea is a viable business venture and if there is a market for their product or service. 2. Set a timeline. Is there a season where it would make sense to test out your business venture? Or perhaps there’s a transitional time in your life where you’ll be looking to open a new chapter. For example, transitioning your hobby into a viable business venture is a great option for active duty military personnel and veterans because they naturally begin to think about what their second career will be after retiring or leaving the Armed Forces. 3. Decide on time commitment. Decide how much time you are willing to dedicate to your new venture in the beginning. Being an entrepreneur means being your own boss which affords you unprecedented flexibility, but the effort you put in directly affects what you get out. Keep in mind, entrepreneurship isn’t just for full-time professionals. Turning a hobby into a career is a great option for military and stay-at-home parents who require flexibility in working hours and location, but they may have more open time to dedicate to the transition. 4. Create a business plan. Transitioning a hobby into a profession is a lot of fun, but it’s also serious business if you want to be successful. That means creating a business plan that includes goals and plans for attaining them. This will serve as the foundation for how you strategize and build a successful business today. Plus, when it comes time to finance your budding business, a solid business plan will give you a leg up and direction for the future. 5. Find financial backing. Depending on what type of business you want to pursue, you may need some additional funding beyond what you can afford. Establishing a relationship with a financial institution will help you learn more about small business loans and lending products that will help your small business grow. Bring your passion and your business plan — potential investors and financial institutions alike will want to see both before they make a decision. — Brandpoint See BIZ BITS, page 13
Mass. firms among those singled out during week-long event
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Small businesses are the anchor of the American economy, creating two out of three new jobs and employing half of the private workforce. With this week we celebrate the mom and pop shops and the future Fortune 500s — those small businesses that propel their local communities and are picking up speed at the state and national level. Many of these small businesses are poised for growth and ready to do great things.”
By MARTIN DESMARAIS
Last week was President Barack Obama’s last National Small Business Week and he took the opportunity to cement his economic legacy. Events around the country — and in Massachusetts — helped to highlight the strong state of the small business sector during the last eight years. Obama was quick to point out the critical role small businesses play in the U.S. economy, crediting the sector for the several-year-long job growth. “Responsible for creating nearly two-thirds of net new jobs in the United States each year and employing more than half of all Americans, small businesses have always been a vital part of our country’s economy. As outlets for creativity and ingenuity, small businesses do more than create jobs and foster growth — they represent the spirit that has always driven our nation forward,” Obama said, speaking from the White House April 29. “Throughout National Small Business Week, we celebrate the irreplaceable role these enterprises play in our national life by pledging to support them and equip them with the tools and resources they need to succeed.” The president pointed to a number of policies his administration has enacted to back small business growth, including 18 different tax cuts for small businesses, tax credit of up to 50 percent for some small businesses as part of the Affordable Care Act, and a dozen agreements with other countries to try and help boost small business exports. He also has some strong numbers to tout, showing the lucrative government work thrown small businesses’ way. “During fiscal year 2015, we awarded an all-time high of more than a quarter of eligible federal contracts to small businesses, and we made great strides in ensuring more government contracts are given to women-owned small businesses — nearly $18 billion worth,” said Obama. Obama has also been praised for pushing the launch of next-generation manufacturing hubs and generally streamlining the process of starting a small business with online entrepreneurial tools and resources with the Startup in a Day initiative.
Entrepreneurial spirit
While the efforts have proven fruitful for small businesses, economic pundits point out that Obama can also thank the country’s entrepreneurs for best embodying the economic impact of his policies. The bailouts and economic stimulus efforts after the 2008 bottom emboldened many small businesses to rise and become the main force to propel
— Maria Contreras-Sweet, SBA Administrator
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Last year, the SBA surpassed our record for trade finance, supporting $3.3 billion in export sales. I believe we can do even more to help our small businesses reach the 95 percent of consumers who live outside our borders. Small businesses are increasingly engaging in the ever evolving global market place.” — Bob Nelson, SBA Massachusetts District Director
2016 MASSACHUSETTS SBA HONOREES: Small Business Person of the Year/Veteran Small Business Owner of the Year:
StratComm, Inc., Natick, MA Robert George, Founder/ President & CEO
Business of the Year:
China Blossom, North Andover, MA Richard Yee, Founder & David Yee, General Manager
Massachusetts Microenterprise of the Year:
NRICH, Inc., Stoneham, MA Barbara Jean Johnson, Director
Small Business Development Center Excellence and Innovation:
MA Small Business Development Center Network Central Regional Office @ Clark University, Worcester, MA John Rainey, Regional Director
Minority Small Business Owner of the Year:
Small Business Manufacturer of the Year:
Small Business Exporter of the Year:
Guardian Healthcare, Boston, MA Jose de la Rosa, CEO
The Chamberlain Group, LLC Great Barrington, MA Lisa Chamberlain, VP/ Managing Partner
Fireking Baking Company Braintree, MA Greg Acerra, President/Owner
Woman Small Business Owner of the Year:
Financial Services Champion:
8(a) Graduate of the Year:
Dune Jewelry, INC Hyde Park, MA Holly Christensen, Founder & CEO
Berkshire Bank Peter Rice, Senior VP Business Banking
Watermark Environmental, Inc. Lowell, MA John Haley, President & CEO
Jeffrey Butland Family-Owned
the country out of recession. From 2007 to 2009, 8 million jobs were lost, but small business hiring since has driven a record period of job growth. In addition, these small businesses born out of the recession feature a pragmatism that allows them to weather economic storms more so than the flashy startup exuberance that characterized the prior technology boom. Today’s startups are changing the economy with new innovation and altering the nature of employment in the process. Long the government’s right hand in small business backing, the U.S. Small Business Administration also took center stage during National Small Business Week. SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet reiterated often the cornerstone status of the country’s 28 million small businesses and the fact that it is easy — but neglectful — to forget that every large business starts small. “Small business are the anchor
of the American economy, creating two out of three new jobs and employing half of the private workforce. With this week we celebrate the mom and pop shops and the future Fortune 500s — those small business that propel their local communities and are picking up speed at the state and national level. Many of these small businesses are poised for growth and ready to do great things,” Contreras-Sweet said.
Nationwide observance
National Small Business Week is part of the May observance of national small business month. The week has been celebrated since 1963 and is spearheaded by the SBA. The celebration of small business has evolved into a country-wide slate of events and awards honoring successful small businesses. Each state has a Small Business Person of the Year and the SBA crowns a national winner in Washington, with the award
this year going to Equator Coffees & Teas out of San Rafael, Calif. Other events were held in Denver, New York, Phoenix and Oakland. Locally, Massachusetts had a week-long slate of events to celebrate National Small Business Week, culminating in the Massachusetts SBA office’s award luncheon, which was held on May 6. SBA Massachusetts District Director Bob Nelson used his small business week platform to push the agency’s efforts to increasing small business exports. “Last year, the SBA surpassed our record for trade finance, supporting $3.3 billion in export sales. I believe we can do even more to help our small businesses reach the 95 percent of consumers who live outside our borders,” Nelson said. “Small businesses are increasingly engaging in the ever evolving global market place. [The SBA] can transform more small businesses to
See SBA, page 13
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continued from page 12 become exporters and expand their export sales. In the process, these small businesses will create jobs and strengthen their communities.” Massachusetts highlighted a “Small Business Exporter of the Year” — the Chamberlain Group, a surgical training device company in Great Barrington, Mass. The “Small Business Person of the Year” award went to StratComm Inc. founder, president and CEO, Robert George. Also, honored is a “Minority-Owned Business of the Year,” which this year went to Guardian Healthcare, started and run by Jose and Zoraida de la Rosa out of Jamaica Plain. Founded in 2008, Guardian Healthcare provides nursing, therapy services, case management and certified home health aides. The company expanded offices to Springfield in 2011, Lawrence in 2013 and Brockton in 2014.
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million: Aeropostale is closing 113 stores in the U.S. and all of its 41 stores in Canada as part of its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The clothing retailer said 117 of the stores set to close are not profitable and were responsible for $17 million in losses in 2015.
The husband and wife pair started Guardian Healthcare out of their home and have grown the business from three employees in 2010 to 180 employees today. “Through Guardian Healthcare — Jose and Zoraida have been able to provide customized caretaker services with cultural competence, especially in the Hispanic/Latino community. Communities are strengthened by the jobs they have created and the unique services that benefit our society as a whole,” said SBA District Director Nelson. Other awards included: China Blossom from North Andover as “Family Owned Business of the Year”; Holly Christensen founder of Dune Jewelry in Hyde Park as “Women Small Business Owner of the Year”; Stoneham’s NRICH Inc. as “Microenterprise of the Year”; Fireking Baking Company of Braintree as “Small Business Manufacturer of the Year”; Berkshire Bank as “Financial Services Champion”; and Watermark Environmental Inc. in Lowell as “8(a) Graduate of the Year.”
World Fellowship Center anniversary
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Andrea James, of Families, Justice & Healing, answers an audience members question, while Evan Seitz, Joia Mukherjee, and Robert Meeropol look on at the Arlington Street Church to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the World Fellowship Center.
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continued from page 1 on housing. Meanwhile, the people receiving city assistance to purchase homes last quarter averaged an income of $66,003. As a result, many of these homebuyers turned to units deed restrictions to below-market prices. Two years ago, 48 percent of city-assisted buyers purchased below-market deed-restricted units. Last year, 63 percent did. MAHA offers mortgages to first-time homebuyers with household assets of not more than $75,000 and income not more than 100 percent of the area median income (no more than $98,100 for a family of four). Callahan said that a decade ago, 30 percent of these mortgage loans went to buying in Boston but now only 10 percent do. “That’s the most dramatic indication we have, other than anecdotal stories, that people are really being priced out of the city,” he said. Many attendees at the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance’s homebuying classes, Callahan said, are residents of Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park and Roxbury supporting a family of four on household incomes of $40,000 to 90,000. Unable to afford to stay in the city, many instead are turning to areas like Brockton. “If you’re in that income bracket in Boston, you’re struggling to be able to afford to buy a house anywhere in the city,” Callahan said. “The lower end of that range is pretty much priced out of the city completely. The higher end may occasionally be able to buy.”
ON THE WEB Boston’s quarterly housing report: http://
dnd.cityofboston.gov/portal/v1/contentRepository/Public/dnd%20pdfs/PolicyResearch/ Boston2030/Boston_2030_2016_Q1_ FINAL_160428_313.pdf
Rita Moreno at Berklee
Massachusetts Community & Banking Council report executive summary: http://
mcbc.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ CP22-Executive-Summary-Dec2015.pdf MCBC report key findings presentation: http://mcbc.info/wp-content/
uploads/2015/12/CP22-powerpoint-for-MelKing-Inst-Forum-Jan-13-draft.pdf
Racial lending gaps
Not only are housing prices rising, but blacks and Latinos tend to have less access to loans, according the latest report prepared for the Massachusetts Community & Banking Council by Jim Campen, professor emeritus of economics at University of Massachusetts-Boston. The findings reveal that, although blacks comprised 21 percent of Boston households in 2014, they received only 5.6 percent of all home-purchase loans. Latinos — comprising 13.7 percent of Boston households — received only 4.8 percent. These numbers reflect all loans, including conventional loans and the often more expensive government-backed loans. GBLs are made by private lenders and insured or guaranteed by a federal agency. While whites compromised only 4.8 percent of Bostonians receiving GBLs, Latinos’ share was 22.8 percent and blacks’ 39.5 percent, suggesting the latter groups had fewer other options. In Boston, Greater Boston and across the state, blacks and Latinos also were denied conventional loans far more often than whites, regardless of income, the MCBC report states.
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Berklee College of Music commencement speaker Rita Moreno performs in a concert at Aganis Arena. Moreno has won all four of the most prestigious awards in show business: the Oscar, the Tony, two Emmys, and a Grammy. Her credits span more than six decades, beginning with her Broadway debut at age 13.
The situation has been getting worse. In Boston and Greater Boston the share of home-purchase loans of any kind going to blacks and Latinos declined between 2004 and 2014, according to the MCBC report. Across that decade, black Bostonians’ share of loans more than halved.
City effort
Recent efforts by the city provide some relief. During the first quarter of 2016, the city provided financial assistance to 51
middle-class individuals to purchase their first homes. Those homebuyers were largely from underserved populations, with 83 percent of them nonwhite, according to the city’s quarterly report. Minorities have been proportionally overrepresented in the city’s homebuyer assistance programs this fiscal year, although those programs are of limited size. According to data supplied to the Banner by the Department of Neighborhood Development, since July 2015 the city has served 99 homebuyers, 34 percent of whom were white, 33 percent black and 23 percent Latino. In comparison, the city population is 54 percent white, 24 percent black and 17.5 percent Latino, according to the 2010 census. During fiscal year 2016, the city primarily provided assistance
to local residents buying in the city. Most of the buyers identified themselves as from Dorchester (27 percent) or simply Boston (22 percent), followed by Hyde Park (10 percent) and Mattapan at 6 percent. These homebuyers secured units primarily in Dorchester (25 percent), Mattapan (20 percent), Hyde Park (15 percent) and Roxbury (11 percent), according to information provided by the DND. The city hit only 62 percent of its goal for assisted first-time home purchases during the first quarter of 2016. The city housing report stated that the right audience is being reached but more progress must be made: “The city is reaching the most priced out segment of buyers, and is reaching the most underserved markets. Scaling up these outcomes is the key challenge going forward.”
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‘EVERYWHEN: THE ETERNAL PRESENT IN INDIGENOUS ART FROM AUSTRALIA’ ON DISPLAY AT HARVARD ART MUSEUM THROUGH SEPT. 18 By SUSAN SACCOCCIA
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Above, “The Burala Rite” by Tom Djawa (1972). Earth pigments on bark. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Below, “Wipu Rockhole” by Tommy Watson (2004). Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Collection Benefactors’ Group.
PHOTO: TOMMY WATSON/COURTESY OF YANDA ABORIGINAL ART.
“EVERYWHEN: THE ETERNAL PRESENT IN INDIGENOUS ART FROM AUSTRALIA,” a compelling exhibition on display at the Harvard Art Museums through September 18, presents works of timeless immediacy by original inhabitants of Australia and their contemporary descendants. Curated by Stephen Gilchrist, an art historian at the University of Sydney, Australia, the exhibition borrows the word “everywhen,” from Australian anthropologist William Stanner, who when studying Indigenous people in his country, coined the term to describe their understanding of time as an intertwining of past, present, and future. The works speak for themselves with their arresting beauty and power. Yet the back stories of individual works as well as the recent development of an Indigenous art community are concisely presented by the show’s excellent wall texts and catalogue, which includes images of the works and essays by Gilchrist, its editor, and four other scholars. Like cliff paintings or cave art, many works on display are universal in their reach across time and geography. Some resemble paintings by Paul Klee, Mark Rothko, Jean Dubuffet, Jackson Pollock and such movements as minimalism and optical art. Drawn from public and private collections in Australia and the U.S, the exhibition presents more than 70 works, most produced
within the last 40 years and shown for the first time outside Australia. Some of the artists represented by this show have exhibited at blockbuster venues such as the Venice Biennale, Documenta and the Istanbul Biennial. Here, works by both renowned and lesser-known mingle with beguiling traditional objects from Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Presented side by side with contemporary works, objects usually regarded as anthropological artifacts gain deserved respect as art works too. Organized not chronologically but instead, by themes — Seasonality, Transformation, Performance and Remembrance — this revelatory show enables viewers to discover the kinship of works old and new and experience the “eternal present” that animates them. Traditional as well as contemporary alike, they embed the responsiveness of Indigenous people to the natural world that they have inhabited more than 40,000 years. Works evoke seasons and celestial
movements and incorporate native pigments and plants. The first of four galleries focuses on “Seasonality.” Three contemporary larrakitj, tall, tubular vessels used to hold the ashes of the dead, are grouped in a stately grove like a stand of birches. Nearby “Yukawa” (2010) is an exquisite bark painting by Djirrirra Wunungmurra that intertwines young branches and leaves. Another by Gulumbu Yunupingu, “Garak IV (The Universe)” (2004) is a spellbinding array of dots and lines that suggest the whirls and eddies of tides and stars. Interweaving old and new practices, renowned fiber artist Regina Pilawuk Wilson honors what she regards as a lost art in her painting that combines synthetic polymer paint with digital imagery, “Syaw (Fish Net)” (2008). Crisscrossing fine lines over patches of yellow pigment to sugget the movement of a spindle as well as the shape of a water hole, the painting pulses with energy. Grouped together in a gallery on the theme of “Transformation” are works that evoke shape-shifting ancestors that inhabit the natural world as well as hallowed sites they endow with life-giving forces. A vibrating celebration of creation, Tommy Watson’s painting “Wipu Rockhole” (2004) is a gorgeous mosaic of colorful dots and snaking lines suggesting streams and footpaths. Manydjarri Ganambarr’s bark painting “Djambarrpuyngu märna” (1996) enfolds
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Chained and shamed:
Radcliffe Bailey’s contemporary take on the slave narrative By CELINA COLBY
Samson Projects gallery on Thayer Street in the South End is no stranger to pushing boundaries. Their current show featuring multimedia artist Radcliffe Bailey does justice to their long history of avant-garde exhibitions. Through a mix of sculpture, collage and performance, Bailey revisits classic themes from African history through a contemporary lens. On view until May 28, the show radiates a fantastical quality that both softens and, by comparison, sharpens his critique of the history of slavery. “Fourth Ward” is a seven-foottall door coated on one side in gold leaf with a heavy, rusted antique lock. The other side is a dull white, with a string of bottle-cap chain links nailed into it. Here, privilege and oppression stand next to each other, two sides of the same coin. The gold leaf is radiant, but diverges sharply from the heavy bolt, reminding viewers that unsettling foundations often are supporting the gilded elite. The chains made of bottle
caps hammer this point further, as though saying it is the excess of the ruling class that binds the oppressed.
Blue blood
If “Fourth Ward” is the largest and most dense artwork, “Blue Black Blue Cool” packs an equally powerful punch in more delicate packaging. The piece is part of a performance Bailey does, but the remnants are preserved for the duration of the exhibition. A glass heart is mounted against the wall, a quarter full of deep, indigo “blood.” A trail of blue slides from the heart down to the floor, where it pools in an unsettling manner. The connection to the term “blue bloods” to mean the upper class is immediate. The piece seems to chart the slow drain of humanity from the slaveholders that turned African American history into a horror story. Only the blue stain of what once filled their empty organ remains. One whole wall of the exhibit is devoted to Bailey’s Notes from Tervuren series. The set collages pictures of ancient statues with
brightly-colored abstract landscapes, all on the backdrop of old jazz sheet music. In some cases the pieces are lighter and more satirical, such as the man in a suit who brandishes a gun alone on a boat in the middle of a cosmic colored seascape. Others demand reverence, like the dark portrait of a saxophone melting into what looks like black lava while spewing smoke from its mouth. Though the piece is painted on sheet music with the saxophone collaged in, the music isn’t visible here, underscoring the death, perhaps by appropriation, of a genre that once heralded artistic and cultural freedom. Though working with dark material, the show avoids an oppressive, preachy feeling. Bailey uses the foundations of African culture and history but modernizes the material with eclectic textures, colors, and media. The work feels fresh and meaningful. The true triumph of this exhibit is its balance between styles and concepts. Bailey manages to tackle a tragic topic with power, but not harshness.
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Radcliffe Bailey’s “Notes from Tervuren,” 2014, demonstrates the artist’s use of gouache, collage and sheet music.
IF YOU GO WHAT: Multimedia artist Radcliffe Bailey WHERE: Samson Projects Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave. in the South End HOURS: Wednesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment WHEN: Through May 28
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‘The Body Politic’ Juventas New Music confronts gender politics, and wins By CELINA COLBY
“The Body Politic” is the 2016 installment of Juventas New Music Ensemble’s Opera Project. Created by Charles Osburne and Leo Hurley, it tells the story of Iphis, born a girl in Afghanistan under Taliban rule who must dress as a boy to provide for her family. This brings out already brewing feelings that he should have been born a boy. In between these scenes of childhood strife, we see a present-day Iphis, now a man, still struggling for acceptance in his new home of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The material, though perhaps too much to unpack in a two-hour opera, is extremely relevant in a contemporary culture where the body has been pulled into the political arena, and castrated at the hands of lawmakers. Iphis’s mother says to him in the first act, “You look like a boy.” And he says, “I look like myself,” a simple distillation of the ongoing gender debate. His mother can only see through binary lenses, where
Iphis was born a girl. Laura Intravia gave a stunning performance as a young Iphis, coupled with the powerhouse performer Alexandra Dietrich as Iphis’s mother Roxana. The two had undeniable chemistry that lent believability to their complicated relationship. Present-day Iphis has a foster mother and brother, but even with the backstory of a dead father, the characters feel undeveloped, serving as foils to Iphis and his mother. There is some connection between the two mothers, who both struggle for peace of a different kind. However, Constance’s conservative outlook in a quiet town feels less justified than Roxana’s lifelong struggle against war and prejudice.
Identity and choice
James Wesley Hunter brought much-needed humor to the piece as Iphis’s drag queen roommate, Eugene. His fabulous wardrobe and upbeat songs diversified the score and offered relief from the tense subject matter. The show culminates in a confrontation
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between Iphis, Constance and Eugene, where he says, “My body is not a soapbox.” Though a bit literal, the speech gets across Iphis’s frustration at moving laterally from one oppressive nation to another. The stage for “The Body Politic” is intimate and minimal, featuring only a table and chairs, a few books and a rug made of makeshift sand. Dim yellow lights hang from the low ceiling of the Plaza Black Box and hanging kites allude to the freedom that’s sought throughout the production. The simplicity of the set serves to underscore the simplicity of Osburne and Hurley’s message: We are all human. The show ends with little resolution, as transgender issues are in the United States. In fact, Hurley and Osburne take the opera into the heart of the fire on May 19 when they present it in the State Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C. — where lawmakers passed a bill prohibiting local governments from enacting laws protecting the civil liberties of transgendered people. “The Body Politic” may be tackling too large a range of subjects, but they are the right subjects, and the show preaches equality with a passion and talent that Will 2-up_Will Downing can only beDowning admired.
shark and human figures within bold vertical geometric patterns. A composition of intricate circles and rectangles rendered in earth pigments of black, white and tan, Gunybi Ganambarr’s “Buyku” (2011) is a mesmerizing mandala. Accompanying these contemporary works are traditional ones, including hand-carved vessels of amber wood used to gather food and cradle babies. Works in the “Performance” gallery present artmaking as a medium of summoning spirits, a physical act no less potent than ceremonial dances. Some works evoke the rhythms of ritual dances and the movements of nature. Two commanding paintings — “Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa” (2002) by Dorothy Napangardi, and Doreen Reid Nakamarra’s “Untitled” (2007) — echo the ripples of wind on sand and grass in their desert homelands in patterns of tiny dots and lines. They call to mind Jackson Pollock’s abstractions and his process of dripping paint while standing over his canvas. Pollock sought immediacy and transcendence. Both qualities are palpable in this pair of paintings. In the same gallery are traditional works, including woven baskets, a skirt and a handsome drum that could have been crafted by modernist sculptor Isamu No4/15/16 3:41Constructed PM Page 1 of ebony wood guchi.
in an elongated hourglass shape and mounted at an angle, the drum resembles a big fish cresting a wave. Black and white is the dominant palette of the gallery entitled “Remembrance,” where works bear witness to historic events from an Indigenous perspective. When Dutch traders colonized Tasmania, an island off the Australian coast, they renamed it Van Diemen’s Land in honor of their governor, and turned it into a penal colony. The newcomers’ diseases soon devastated the local population. A necklace composed of coal, oak and antlers from Tasmania, Julie Gough’s “Dark Valley, Van Diemen’s Land” (2008), casts a shadow in the shape of the island. Combining digital imagery with the warmth and delicacy of hand drawings, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu’s “Untitled (Drawings for light painting)” (2010-11) is a wall mural of shiny, reflective tiles, each a riff on a traditional motif. The catalog also includes a summary of research by the Harvard museum’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, which analyzed the materials used in the pigments of bark paintings. Its table of ingredients reads like the recipe for a magician’s concoction: orchid bark juice, gull and sea turtle eggs, mango resin, honey, saliva and dry cell batteries. The evidence suggests that improvisation is at the heart of Indigenous art, both old and new.
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of Puerto Rico last week missed a $422 million debt payment, while struggling to keep basic government functions running. Sotomayor recently visited the island and said that government employees and teachers there are particularly vulnerable. “The Puerto Rican people are scared,” she said. “There are a lot of people whose lives will be deeply, deeply affected by what goes on there.” Sotomayor, whose parents were from Puerto Rico, grew up in a working class family. She said neither she nor her mother ever imagined she would ascend to the highest U.S. court. “My actual work, it doesn’t really matter to her,” she said. “It mattered to her that my brother and I got an education. I’m from a generation whose parent came here wanting a better life.” Sotomayor contrasted her life, with that of Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose award-winning musical “Hamilton” has taken Broadway by storm. Miranda’s accomplishment underscores the progress Puerto Ricans have made in the U.S., she said. “He’s been given a freedom that I don’t think my parents would understand,” she said. “He’s been given the freedom to be creative.”
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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor acknowledges audience applause during her appearance at Wheelock College last Saturday, accompanied by Jose Masso. During her Boston trip Sotomayor met with prominent Puerto Rican activists who were honored as part of Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies 100 Puerto Ricans list: Jaime Rodriguez, Jovita Fontanez, Felix D. Arroyo, Tony Molina, Jose Masso, Felita Oyola, Miguel Fuentes and Ernesto Gonzalez. At the Villa Victoria, Sotomayor toured the development and spoke with residents, said Vanessa
Calderon Rosado, executive director of Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion, the community development corporation that owns and maintains the development. “She talked about community, the value of family,” Calderon-Rosado said of the meeting, which was closed to the press. “The residents were so happy to have her visit. She was so humble and so human.” In her address at Wheelock
College, Sotomayor said she particularly enjoyed meeting with the senior citizens in the Villa Victoria development. “They were my grandmothers and aunts,” she said. “Being with them keeps me real. If I ever lose that, I tell my friends, take that big fat book I wrote and hit me over the head with it.” Among those who met with Sotomayor was William Rodriguez,
assistant professor and chair of Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy at Wheelock College, who like Sotomayor, grew up in the Bronx in the 1960s. “She told me it’s really great to see another survivor of that era in the Bronx,” Rodriguez said. “Many of the people we know ended up dead or in jail. For her to make it to the highest court in the nation as a Puerto Rican woman — that resonates for me.” Following her Wheelock speech, Sotomayor took questions from audience members, walking through the aisles of the college’s auditorium. When a first-year law school student asked for advice on how to get through her studies, Sotomayor advised her to seek help from fellow students. “There’s nothing natural about law school,” she told the student. “Lawyers don’t think like normal people. They teach you to think objectively in a way that’s logical to them, but it’s not normal to the rest of us. Please understand that you’re not stupid.” Sotomayor hugged the questioners and posed for photos with each. Questioned about the negative tone in the presidential race, Sotomayor urged the audience to remain positive. “If we let the tone of some of the public discourse that’s happening now become the standard in America, then we’ve lost America,” she said.
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BOILER AND BURNER MAINTENANCE CONTRACTOR MEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY The Medford Housing Authority, is accepting bids by June 1, 2016, at 10AM for the following services in accordance with Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Law. OIL AND BURNER PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE SERVICES PROVIDER AT THE LAPRISE VILLAGE APARTMENTS The contract being offered is for a one (1) year period from June 15, 2016 through June 14, 2017, with two (2) additional one (1) year options at the sole discretion of the MHA. Services to include preventative maintenance service on 138 oil boiler/burners located at 138 individual sites within the LaPrise Village Apartments. All contracts must be strictly awarded in accordance with the requirements of this Invitation for Bid. If it becomes necessary to revise any part of this Bid or otherwise provide additional information, an addendum will be issued to all prospective bidders who received copies of the original request. Chapter 149 applies to the services to be provided. Full compliance with Federal, State and Municipal Wage Laws is required of all work done for the MHA. Federal wage rates apply. Estimate for contract is $20,000.00 per year, with 2 additional renewable contract years at the owner’s option to renew.
General Bids will be received until 2:00 PM on Thursday, 26 May 2016 and publicly opened online, forthwith. All Bids should be submitted online at www.biddocsonline.com and received no later than the date and time specified above. General bids and sub-bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates), and made payable to the Brookline Housing Authority. Bid Forms and Contract Documents will be available for pick-up on May 11, 2016 at www.biddocsonline.com (may be viewed electronically and hardcopy requested) or at Nashoba Blue, Inc. at 433 Main Street, Hudson, MA 01749 (978-568-1167). There is a plan deposit of $50.00 per set (maximum of 2 sets) payable to Bid Docs ONLINE Inc. Plan deposits may be electronically paid or by check. This deposit will be refunded for up to two sets for general bidders and for one set for sub-bidders upon return of the sets in good condition within thirty (30) days of receipt of general bids. Otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Awarding Authority.
Dorchester, MA and James Thames-Key of Dorchester, MA requesting for leave to adopt said child and that the name of the child be changed to Shariona Niara Thames-Key. If you object to this adoption you are entitled to the appointment of an attorney if you are an indigent person. An indigent person is defined by SJC Rule 3:10. The definition includes but is not limited to persons receiving TAFDC, EACDC, poverty related veteran’s benefits, Medicaid, and SSI. The Court will determine if you are indigent. Contact an Assistant Judicial Case Manager or Adoption Clerk of the Court on or before the date listed below to obtain the necessary forms. IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 05/19/2016. WITNESS, Hon. Joan P Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: March 7, 2016
Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU00P1536GI1
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Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Resignation of a Guardian of an Incapacitated Person
Specifications and bid forms will be available at the Medford Housing Authority Administrative Offices, 121 Riverside Avenue, Medford, MA 02155 or email Joan O’Handley at johandley@medfordhousing.org, or by phone at 781-396-7200 Ext. 114.
Bidders requesting Contract Documents to be mailed to them shall include a separate check for $ 40.00 per set for UPS Ground (or $65.00 per set for UPS overnight), non- refundable, payable to the BidDocs ONLINE Inc., to cover mail handling costs.
In the Interests of Leon Riley Of Boston, MA RESPONDENT Incapacitated Person/Protected Person
A site visit will be held on May 19, 2016 at 10:00AM, meeting at the Foster Court warehouse, off Riverside Ave.
General bidders must agree to contract with minority and women business enterprises as certified by the Supplier Diversity Office (SDO), formerly known as SOMWBA. The combined participation goal reserved for such enterprises shall not be less than 10.4% of the final contract price including accepted alternates. See Contract Documents - Article 3 of the Instructions to Bidders.
Bids are due at the Medford Housing Authority, 121 Riverside Ave., Medford, MA 02155, no later than 10:00 a.m. on June 1, 2016 and the bid opening will be at that time. All bids must be received prior to the opening to be considered. OSHA 10 certification to be submitted with bid and is required for any worker performing work on MHA property. The MHA reserves the right to reject any or all bids when it deems to be in the best interest of the MHA. A contract award will be made by the MHA within 30 days after the bid opening.
PRE-BID CONFERENCE / SITE VISIT: Date and Time: Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 2:00 PM Address: 221 Pleasant Street, Manager’s Office, Brookline, MA Instructions: Any questions regarding the Contract Documents should be directed to BSC Group at 617-896-4368 or cthomas@bscgroup.com The Contract Documents may be seen, but not removed at: Nashoba Blue Inc. 433 Main Street Hudson, MA 01749 978-568-1167
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Purchase of One (1) New Portable Flood Protection System (per Specifications)
05/24/16
12:00 p.m.
*WRA-4225
Purchase of One (1) New Tractor Mower (per Specifications)
05/24/16
12:00 p.m.
Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication
Purchase of Six (6) Rotors for Progressive Cavity Pump EL 200/6 Flowrox (or Equal)
05/25/16
11:00 a.m.
Estate of Walter Everett Moore Date of Death: 11/29/2015
*WRA-2449
Supply and Delivery of Sodium Hydroxide to the Deer Island Treatment Plant
05/26/16
2:00 p.m.
*WRA-4222
Supply and Delivery of Sodium Bisulfite to the John J. Carroll Water Treatment Plant and the Clinton Water Treatment Plant.
05/26/16
3:00 p.m.
*WRA-4219
Grout Nine (9) Pump Bases Deer Island Treatment Plant
06/01/16
3:00 p.m.
*WRA-4218
Installation of Spray Applied Fire Resistant Material MWRA Nut Island Headworks
06/01/16
4:00 p.m.
*OP-327
Hydraulic Equipment Service
06/02/16
**7359
RFQ/P Prison Point CSO 06/10/16 Facility Improvements - Design, Construction Administration and Resident Engineering Services
*WRA-4223
You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/09/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.
Docket No. SU16P0878EA
The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: May 03, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
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2:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m.
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The petition asks the court to make a determination that the Guardian and/ or Conservator should be allowed to resign; or should be removed for good cause; or that the Guardianship and/or Conservatorship is no longer necessary and therefore should be terminated. The original petition is on file with the court.
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To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Leon PJ Drysdale of Manchester, NH in the above captioned matter requesting that the court: Accept the Resignation of the Guardian of the Respondent.
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INVITATION FOR BIDS The Brookline Housing Authority, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids from General Contractors for the CIP DRAINAGE REPAIRS, DHCD #046065 in Brookline, Massachusetts, in accordance with the documents prepared by BSC Group. The Project consists of: The replacement of on-site drainage pipe and associated site work at the High Street and Egmont Street Developments for the Brookline Housing Authority. The estimated construction cost includes all alternates. The work is estimated to cost $470,000. Bids are subject to M.G.L. c.30§39 & to minimum wage rates as required by M.G.L. c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive. THIS PROJECT IS BEING ELECTRONICALLY BID AND HARD COPY BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Please review the instructions in the bid documents on
A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by William A. Moore of New York, NY requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that William A. Moore of New York, NY be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 06/02/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: April 26, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
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In the matter of Thames, Shariona Niara CITATION G.L. c. 210, § 6 To Petronia Thames and Brandon Brunberg and any unnamed or unknown parent and persons interested in a petition for the adoption of said child and to the Department of Children and Families of said Commonwealth. A petion has been presented to said court by Patricia Thames-Key of
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Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Leon Riley Of Boston, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by DMH c/o Office of General Counsel of Westborough, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Leon Riley is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Melissa C. Cote of Londonderry, NH (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 06/09/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: May 03, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
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Citation on Petition for Order of Complete Settlement of Estate
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Estate of Elizabeth Ammons Date of Death: 05/20/2008
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To all interested persons: A Petition has been filed by Guadalesa Rivera of Los Angeles, CA requesting that an Order of Complete Settlement of the estate issue including to approve an accounting and other such relief as may be requested in the Petition. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 06/02/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: March 22, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
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Two 2-Bedroom Condominium Homes - $335,000 One 3-Bedroom Condominium Home - $399,000
Information Session: Thurs. 4/28/16, 7 pm Town Offices: 141 Keyes Road. Concord, MA
Applications accepted through 6/1/16, 1 pm Lottery: 6/13/16 at 7 pm
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278 Old Sudbury Road, Sudbury, MA 01776, 978-639-3373 Income Limits Boston: 2BR@120% AMI — 3BR@140% AMI Asset Limits — Use and Resale Restrictions Apply
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In the matter of Brunberg, Syonah Anjouinette CITATION G.L. c. 210, § 6 To Petronia Thames and Brandon Brunberg and any unnamed or unknown parent and persons interested in a petition for the adoption of said child and to the Department of Children and Families of said Commonwealth. A petion has been presented to said court by Patricia Thames-Key of Dorchester, MA and James Thames-Key of Dorchester, MA requesting for leave to adopt said child and that the name of the child be changed to Paisley Syonah Thames-Key. If you object to this adoption you are entitled to the appointment of an attorney if you are an indigent person. An indigent person is defined by SJC Rule 3:10. The definition includes but is not limited to persons receiving TAFDC, EACDC, poverty related veteran’s benefits, Medicaid, and SSI. The Court will determine if you are indigent. Contact an Assistant Judicial Case Manager or Adoption Clerk of the Court on or before the date listed below to obtain the necessary forms. IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 05/19/2016.
Salisbury Affordable Housing Eight 2 and 3 Bedroom Townhomes Prices: 2 Bed/$179,900 3 Beds/$132,900 (50%) & $199,900 (80%) Sheffield Village, 54 Beach Road Units priced at 50% and 80% of median income Public Information Meeting 6:30, Tuesday, May 31, 2016 Salisbury Senior Center 43 Lafayette Road Application Deadline July 5, 2016
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Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
ASSETS TO $75,000
MAX ALLOWABLE INCOME 1 2 3 4 5 6
50% $34,350 $39,250 $44,150 $49,050 $53,000 $56,900
80% $51,150 $58,450 $65,750 $73,050 $78,900 $84,750
For Info and Application: Pick Up: Salisbury Town Hall, Planning Dept., Public Lib., Senior Ctr or Housing Auth Phone: (978) 456-8388 Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com Application available online at: www.mcohousingservices.com
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PUBLIC NOTICE WEST NEWBURY HOUSING AUTHORITY (WNHA) OPENING OF STATE-AIDED FAMILY HOUSING WAITING LIST TWO BEDROOM On May 27, 2016 the West Newbury Housing Authority will be accepting applications to re-open its State-Aided Family Housing Two Bedroom Waiting List. All completed applications in the WNHA’s possession by June 13, 2016, 12:00 Noon, will be placed on the waiting list by lottery, not by the order in which the applications are received by the WNHA. All applications will be given equal consideration in this lottery method. Priorities and preferences will be applied according to law and regulations and will determine the order in which offers are made. The lottery will be held on June 14, 2016 at 10:30 A.M. at the WNHA conference room, 379 Main Street, West Newbury, MA. A written description of the lottery procedures is available at the WNHA. All completed applications will be given equal consideration in this lottery method. Incomplete applications will be returned and will not be processed. Priorities and preferences will be applied according to law and regulations before offers are made. This process is to establish a waiting list only and does not mean there are available two bedroom units. THE CHAPTER 705 FAMILY PUBLIC HOUSING NET INCOME LIMITS ARE: 2 PERSON $51,150 3 PERSON $57,550 4 PERSON $63,900 The West Newbury Housing Authority will be accepting applications for the State-Aided Chapter 705 Family Housing Program. The Chapter 667 Elderly and Non-elderly Handicapped Housing Program is currently open on a continuous basis and will remain open. Applications received after the date of the lottery will be processed in the order in which they are received. Applications are available at the WNHA office, 379 Main Street, West Newbury MA, 01985 or by calling 978-363-2723. Office hours are Tuesday 1:30-4:30 P.M., Wednesday, 2:00-4:00 P.M. and Thursday, 7:3010:30 A.M. The universal standard application and universal emergency application may also be downloaded on the Department of Housing and Community Development website, www.mass.gov/DHCD. Applicants who submit an emergency application must also submit a standard application. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY HOUSING
Roslindale, MA – Canterbury Place, 950 Canterbury Street will accept subsidized waitlist applications for One & Two Bedroom Apartments May 16 – May 31, 2016 Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Applications are processed in order received. Must meet HUD Income Limits. Call 617-327-4810, (TTY/TRS Relay: #711), or visit our website: Canterburyplaceapts.com
Affordable Apartments in Newton New one-, two-, and three-bedroom affordable apartments are available in Newton. The units will be awarded through a lottery. The following income limits apply: Household size
1 Person
2 Person
3 Person
4 Person
5 Person
6 Person
50% AMI
$34,350
$39,250
$44,150
$49,050
$53,000
$56,900
80% AMI
$51,150
$58,450
$65,750
$73,050
$78,900
$84,750
85% AMI
$58,395
$66,725
$75,055
$83,385
$90,100
$96,730
Maximum rents for the units, including utilities, are as follows: 50% AMI
80% AMI
85% AMI
1-Bedroom - $897*
2-Bedroom - $1,330
2-Bedroom - $1,768
3-Bedroom - $1,096
3-Bedroom - $1,954 * Unit is handicap accessible
An information session will be held on June 2, 2016 at 7:00 P.M. at Myrtle Baptist Church, 21 Curve Street, Newton. Applications must be received by June 30, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. to be included in the lottery.
Share an apartment 1000 per month Includes: n Heat and electricity n Private bathroom n Off-street parking n Close to commuter rail and Red Line n Cable ready n Share kitchen and living room Serious inquiries only No couples Contact Darrell Ramsey (617) 903-2000
Please visit Metro West CD’s website for an application and additional information or contact Robyn at: 617-923-3505 ext. 5 or Robyn@metrowestcd.org. http://metrowestcd.org/housing-services/
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Public Information Meeting 6:30 p.m., Monday June 27, 2016 Wayland Public Library, 5 Concord Rd Raytheon Room Application Deadline July 11, 2016 Lottery 6:30 p.m., August 4, 2016, Library
1 person household: $51,150 2 person household: $58,450 3 person household: $65,750 4 person household: $73,050 5 person household: $78,900 6 person household: $84,750
Convenient location, close to public transportation, banks.
Language/translation assistance available, at no charge, upon request.
Units distributed by lottery. For Info and Application Availability: Pick Up: Wayland Town Hall, - Town Clerks Ofc, Public Library & Leasing Office Phone: (978) 456-8388 TTY/TTD: 711, when asked 978-456-8388 Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com FAX: 978-456-8986
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Grant Manor Apartments Boston, Massachusetts On Friday, May 5, 2016 beginning at 10:00 a.m., Grant Manor will re-open the waitlist for 2 bedroom units (only) . Applications for the lottery will be accepted until 3:00 p.m. on Friday, May 27, 2016. Position on the waitlist will be determined by lottery. The timing of an application submission will have no bearing on whether an applicant is offered housing at Grant Manor. Grant Manor Apartments is located at 1812 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02118. Applications can be picked up at the Management Office Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. or at Dudley Literacy Center located at 65 Warren Street, Roxbury Mondays & Thursdays from Noon to 8:00 p.m., Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., or Fridays and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. You may also request to have an application mailed to you by calling the office at (617-445-0077) or TTY (800) 545-1833 ext. 945. Email requests for applications should be sent to GrantManor@Trinitymanagementcompany.com. Grant Manor will also offer extended office hours on Thursday, May 19th until 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday, May 21, 2016 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Reasonable Accommodations will be made upon request. Grant Manor is subsidized under the federal Section 8 Program and subject to IRS Code Section 42 (Low Income Housing Tax Credit) in addition to other elegibility criteria. In order to be eligible, your total family income must be be below the Hud income limits listed below. HUD INCOME LIMITS HH Size
50%
60%
1
$34,500
$41,400
2
$39,400
$47,280
3
$44,350
$53,220
4
$49,250
$59,100
5
$53,200
$63,840
6
$57,150
$68,580
Amenities: • On-Site Laundry • Convenient to Silver Line Transportaion • On Site Parking • Heat and Hot water included • Garbage Disposal • Community Room • On-Site Play Ground
Rents are based on 30% of adjusted monthly income for eligible families. To be eligible to participate in the lottery, completed applications must be either received before 3:00 p.m. on May 27, 2016, or be postmarked by May 27, 2016.
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The lottery will be held on June 3, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at Grant Manor. Applicant attendance is not required. Equal Housing Opportunity Grant Manor Apartments and Trinity Management, LLC do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, familial status, marital status, legal source of income,gender idenity, ancestry, genetic information, or children in the access or admission to it’s programs or employment, or in its programs, activities, functions or services.
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FULL-TIME PEER ADVOCATE The EVA Center, designed to assist women in exiting out of commercial sexual exploitation (prostitution, trafficking), is looking for survivors with knowledge and experience in advocacy to become part of our growing team and further our mission of ending sexual exploitation. Since 2006 we have worked with hundreds of women, offering comprehensive, holistic services, information and resources. We are a growing program in the process of merging with Casa Myrna Vazquez, an organization working to end domestic violence. Survivor advocates are a vital component of our program and essential in developing needed policies combating trafficking and all forms of exploitation. Advocates will be responsible for working directly with women, providing peer support and assisting them in developing their own exit plans. This position is based out of the Family Justice Center of Boston but will require local travel and some evenings and weekends. Qualified candidates should have an understanding of women’s issues within a human rights based and social justice framework. Full-time, 35 hours weekly. Salary $43,000 - $45,000 annually. Benefits include medical & dental insurance, one-month vacation, 12 holidays annually To apply please send a resume and a cover letter explaining your interest in the position to: cherie@evacenter.org
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