Beacon Hill: Beware Pandora’s Box
If legislators pass one of the leading proposals on Beacon Hill to deal with a possible eviction crisis without offering funding equal to its scope, they could be opening a pandora’s box.
If legislators pass one of the leading proposals on Beacon Hill to deal with a possible eviction crisis without offering funding equal to its scope, they could be opening a pandora’s box.
Rent is due today for most residential and commercial rental units across Massachusetts, over 50 days into stay-at-home advisories and closures of non-essential businesses for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic
What do you do when the economics of renting apartments gets turned upside down by a sudden recession?
Zella-Ray Martin was two years, two months and two days old when she fell to her death out of the window of her mother’s Fitchburg apartment last October. Now, her family is pushing to pass a law in her memory that they hope would prevent similar tragedies by requiring window guards or locks in the homes of young children.