If you want to speak up in favor of this new housing project on the Arborway rotary you can submit a comment here Boston needs a lot more housing! www.bostonplans.org/projects/dev...

920 Centre Street | Bostonplans.org

Development Projects and Planned Development Areas (PDAs) that the Development Review division is coordinating.

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡@thebostonlol.bsky.social · 2w ago

FYI there are flyers all over JP screaming SAVE THE ARBORETUM!!! Oh noes! Is the Arboretum in danger? No, no it's not, it's a NIMBY petition 😒😮‍💨 @universalhub.com

Allston-Brighton Housing Action enjoyed talking with @mayorwu.boston.gov at the Rat City Arts Festival about support for legalizing more housing of all types and safer streets. We're excited about the AB Community Plan and creating a more resilient, affordable neighborhood! @planning.boston.gov

We will be honoring Louisa tonight, July 16, at City Hall Plaza and calling for safe streets, starting at 5:30. Many of us will be heading down via public transit, but there's an Allston-Brighton / Brookline bike convoy leaving from Packard's Corner, meet there at 5pm.

Roslindale remembers one of its bright lights, snuffed out far too soon www.universalhub.com/2026/roslind... #Boston #LauraGag #bicycling

A big thank you to Houston Mayor John Whitmire, who says his office “will not rest” until there is a thorough and independent investigation into the fatal shooting of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado by ICE.

Whitmire joins push for independent probe of Salgado shooting by ICE

Whitmire's announcement comes two days after he said there would be no city-directed probe of the deadly shooting.

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserved to live.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · last mo.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's son: I am calling for a full investigation into the events that transpired on July 7. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE. He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father, and a job creator.

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch

Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.

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Pleaseeeeee I’ve been emailing for months asking when our bike lane barriers will be replaced in Allston-Brighton since they were destroyed over the winter by snow plows

Matt Lawlor@mattjlawlor.bsky.social · last mo.

The cast in place on Congress looks done and it looks great. Thanks @streets.boston.gov and @wutrain.bsky.social - now don’t stop here, more of this all through the downtown core network and all across the city. We want, need, and deserve safer streets for everyone!

Kick off your holiday weekend with ABHA at Park Bagelry! July 3, noon. Talk with your neighbors while you beat the heat with their homemade ice cream or an iced coffee.

This was a really nice event at the new Allstonway. Folks in Allston Brighton have a chill new place to hang out (including indoor spaces when it's hot, cold or raining). And 345 new homes to live in, including 86 income-restricted (25%). It's been a long time coming, but it's here!

Allston-Brighton Housing Action@abhousingaction.org · last mo.

AB Housing Action held a pizza picnic on the new Allstonway at the ERC last evening. Fantastic new public plaza with 345 units of new housing + lots of bunnies! The cafes, hotel, lab buildings and Harvard conference center have ground floors open to the community to linger, work, read, and relax.

If you live in Allston-Brighton, please fill out the survey on the future of Jackson-Mann. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us this Sunday, June 14th, for our monthly Coffee with Neighbors, 12-1:30pm at Cafe Lava & Bento in Brighton Center. This is a great way to meet people and chat about how we can make a more affordable, livable and - dare we say - fun Allston-Brighton.

This is a good new video from Pew Research showing how filtering works. A few people moving into market-rate housing frees up older housing for people lower on the income chain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQYM...

Building More Housing Creates 'Moving Chains' of Affordability

YouTube video by Pew

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“Both Russian and pro-Trump U.S. actors are amplifying and spreading misinformation about Alberta separatism in the hope of fraying Canadian unity and sowing distrust.” An overt attack on Canadian sovereignty, meant specifically to manipulate Canadians. That’s what’s fuelling Alberta separation.

Russia and U.S. amplifying Alberta separatist narratives to stoke division, distrust: report | CBC News

Moscow has long tried to meddle in foreign elections. What's newer is Canada's neighbour overtly trying to influence and fan flames of referendum bid, warns a new report on foreign interference.

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“We are the luckiest bastards alive,” he says of living in Marblehead. “We can’t also be the most self-interested bastards alive. They can’t be the same thing.” www.marbleheadindependent.com/he-asked-if-...

He asked if Marblehead was 'kind of being pricks.' Then the internet found him.

David Modica did not plan on speaking at Town Meeting, yet his brief remark exposed confusion over housing compliance and local candor.

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On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

Let's help make Allston-Brighton livable and safe for everyone, no matter how you roll, walk or ride! www.bulletinnewspapers.com/article/alls...

Safe streets are critical for our Boston neighborhoods Let's keep going, @mayorwu.boston.gov www.bulletinnewspapers.com/article/wher...

Join Allston-Brighton Housing Action for our Love Your Block cleanup at Smith Playground this Saturday, April 25 10am start! 235 Western Ave. Great way to meet new folks and hear about our pro-housing advocacy. partiful.com/e/J5jtXG9gAc...

Love Your Block Allston-Brighton | Partiful

Help your neighbors at Allston-Brighton Housing Action beautify Smith Playground as part of Love Your Block. Meet us at 10 am at the Quest Eternal statue to pick up litter in the park and around the n...

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Join the Boston Task Force (T4MA, Shared Spaces, BCU) for a rally before the crucial public hearing on street safety. We need to pack the room! 📅Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 📣Rally: 1:15PM 🎤Hearing: 2:00PM 📍Boston City Hall

Examples of how cities and states are being creative about affordable housing, including Massachusetts. open.substack.com/pub/housingi...

Good Policies That Put Capital To Work

How State and Local Governments are taking practical steps to build and finance more affordable rental housing.

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Safe Streets Rally and Hearing this Wednesday 4/22 As the Globe has reported, safe streets projects across the city have been halted with no clear explanation, even losing existing funding. Please join WalkUP Roslindale along with other advocates, city councilors, and fellow residents for a rally…

Really glad to see movement on eliminating parking mandates that are decades old and based on no evidence. Good news if we can get it done!

Allston-Brighton Housing Action@abhousingaction.org · 4mo ago

Thank you, Councilor Durkan, for proposing the zoning amendment to eliminate arbitrary parking mandates! We're glad to see our Councilor Liz Breadon as a co-sponsor! open.substack.com/pub/rondurk/...

we scooped Jackson Mann's ten-million-dollar allocation this week. following budget release, we are following it up with some more analysis about what this year's capital budget tells us about the future of Jackson Mann.

The city released the capital budget. Where does Allston’s local community center fit in? - Allstonia

When Mayor Michelle Wu unveiled the capital budget, the Jackson Mann Community Center was allocated a fraction of the amount that local leaders and residents were calling for.

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Come to AB Housing Action's Coffee with Neighbors Sunday, April 12th, at Cafe Lava & Bento in Brighton Center. Great way to meet your neighbors in a relaxed setting!

Thank you, @universalhub.com ! And everyone, come out to the rally April 14th, starting at 5:30, outside our deteriorating Jackson-Mann, 500 Cambridge St, Allston!

Universal Hub@universalhub.com · 4mo ago

Vague promises no longer enough for Allston and Brighton residents, who are planning a rally for a decent community center www.universalhub.com/2026/vague-p... #Boston

At least this is a nice sight to see! Welcome home, Integrity and Artemis crew!

Our Allston-Brighton Housing Action letter to @mayorwu.boston.gov calling for funding a new Jackson-Mann Community Center. We're a community of mostly renters AND we work hard everyday for this city and our neighborhood. Stop the unequal treatment of neighborhoods and fully fund Jackson-Mann!

We can cause untold suffering for Iranians, but I fear the civilization that will die tonight is our own. We will have given up on all our founding principles, we will be a pariah state with no allies, and the Strait of Hormuz will still be closed.

Same....

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My manager just walked into my office and says: "The day started with snow. How will it end? With the President dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran?" Which is a pretty perfect summation of the moment we are all living through.