When:
Saturday, Feb 08, 2020 12:00p -
2:00p

Where:
Maverick Square MBTA stop
Maverick Square
East Boston, Ma 02128

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Social Good

(español abajo) The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) plans to vote on the plan for #SuffolkDowns on Thursday, February 13th, 2020. The plan is to build a new neighborhood in the heart of East Boston with 10,000 new, mostly luxury, housing units.


We’re demanding that HALF of these units be affordable to families earning 30% of the area median income. We also need real protections from #displacement for the surrounding community in the plan. And we need a public process that is accessible to non-English speakers.


Tom O’Brien of HYM Investment Group, alongside his Texas billionaire funder William Bruce Harrison, are refusing to build the level of #affordablehousing that East Boston residents desperately need in this primarily working class, immigrant area. They’re also refusing to truly help protect the surrounding area from displacement, and many of the most impacted residents have been excluded from the community process leading up to the vote.


The time is NOW to speak up and march with us in this pivotal moment before the vote. We need strong, meaningful improvements to the plan before the BPDA votes! Join us to create a just future for our city.


Organized by the PUEBLO Coalition (People United for East Boston Liberation and Organizing).
#OurSuffolkDowns


¡El BPDA planea votar sobre el plan para #SuffolkDowns el jueves 13 de febrero! El plan es construir un nuevo vecindario en el corazón de East Boston con 10,000 unidades de vivienda nuevas, la mayoría de las cuales serán de lujo. Demandamos que la MITAD de estas unidades sea accesible para las familias que ganan el 30% del ingreso medio del área. También necesitamos protecciones reales contra el desplazamiento para la comunidad circundante en el plan. Y necesitamos un proceso público que sea accesible para personas que no hablan inglés


Tom O’Brien de HYM Investment Group, junto con su financiador multimillonario de Texas, William Bruce Harrison, se niegan a construir el nivel de vivienda asequible que los residentes de East Boston necesitan desesperadamente en esta área de inmigrantes principalmente de clase trabajadora. También se niegan a ayudar realmente a proteger el área circundante del desplazamiento, y muchos de los residentes más afectados han sido excluidos del proceso comunitario antes del voto.


Ahora es el momento de levantar la voz y marchar juntos, en este momento crucial antes del voto.


Organizado por la Coalición PUEBLO (People United for East Boston Liberation and Organizing).
#OurSuffolkDowns

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