Leo
@leoruiz48.bsky.social
Boston community advocate. Housing is a human right. Let's hold power accountable. Views my own
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Boston City Councilors File Legislation to Improve Transportation Department Accountability - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Councilors also passed a hearing order to discuss a possible new bike network plan, and a resolution that urges "in the strongest terms that the (Wu) administration strengthen its approach to Vision Z...
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I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Contact your Legislators: Support Automatic CORI Sealing. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/cont...
Contact your Legislators: Support Automatic CORI Sealing
Thank you for reaching out to your Massachusetts legislators in support of automatic CORI sealing with the Clean Slate MA Campaign. Complete the form on the right to identify your legislators. Then, s...
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I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: MACDC House Budget Amendment Advocacy FY27. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/topa...
MACDC House Budget Amendment Advocacy FY27
The House is working on the FY27 state budget right now. Advocate for affordable housing and economic development amendments!
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Wu Administration Shelved Safety Plans For Mission Hill Streets Where Driver Killed Louisa Gag - Streetsblog Massachusetts
"We knew there were dangers. We had a plan to make it safer. It is blatantly irresponsible for the city to make a deliberate decision to not follow through."
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Boston has been warned for years that delayed street-safety projects would cost lives. Enough is enough. Read and sign the open letter to Mayor Wu: benjaminsiegel.github.io/enough-is-en...
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH — An open letter to Mayor Wu on street safety
Boston has been warned for years that delayed street-safety projects would cost lives. Read and sign the open letter.
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I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: MACDC House Budget Amendment Advocacy FY27. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/topa...
MACDC House Budget Amendment Advocacy FY27
The House is working on the FY27 state budget right now. Advocate for affordable housing and economic development amendments!
actionnetwork.org
For Juana Matias to diminish the grassroots supported rent campaign as a “badly written ballot initiative” is a slap in the face to the hundreds of thousands of folks who signed the petition and to the people most vulnerable to displacement that this legislation is meant to protect
CommonWealth Beacon@cwbeacon.bsky.social · 2mo agoEfforts to address Massachusetts’s crippling housing crunch have come in fits and starts. Juana Matias, the state’s new housing secretary, joins The Codcast to reflect on MBTA Communities, accessory dwelling units, and what other policies can chip away at the crisis.
Great news- no Mass. tax cut referendum in November. But the way the coalition led by the Massachusetts High Technology Council and other groups fought to gut state revenue should not be forgotten. Theyre still at it
Massachusetts court blocks high-stakes income tax cut question from the November ballot
In a blockbuster ruling just as ballot measure campaigns submit their final signatures, Massachusetts’s highest court cut the fuse of a revenue bomb that was set to blow $5 billion out of the state bu...
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Please support these groups on the frontlines of movements for justice and liberation in Boston. Ill be there volunteering too!
* 2026 Celebration of Grassroots Organizing in Boston
13th Annual Celebration of Grassroots Organizing in Boston / 13ª Celebración Anual de la Organización de Base en Boston
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Let's go, Healey! Let's make this happen!
‘I’m going to do everything in my power.’ Healey says she supports a compromise on rent control ballot measure. - The Boston Globe
Speaking at a labor event, the Massachusetts governor said she hopes to find a middle ground on rent control and avoid a divisive ballot fight this fall.
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"As punishment for organizing a hunger strike in a WA detention camp, federal immigration agents forced 44-year-old Cuban national Rogelio Bolufé onto a plane early this month, threatened him with torture, took him to Ecuador, and left him there with nothing." prospect.org/2026/06/12/f...
Feds Deport ICE Detainee Organizer to Ecuador - The American Prospect
Rogelio Bolufé is a Cuban national who faced ongoing retaliation for organizing against inhumane conditions inside detention camps.
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City Council Cuts $1.4 Million From Boston Transportation Dept. In Last-Minute Budget Debates - Streetsblog Massachusetts
City Councilor Sharon Durkan warns that the new budget will "undoubtedly result in layoffs" at the Boston Transportation Department, the agency that plans and designs street safety and transit improve...
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"Also absent from the talks: any legislators." But also S.1447/H.2328 (the rent control bill) has sat at the State House since the start of this session without meaningful movement.
Rent control backers scrambling to find legislative road away from the ballot
Organizers then went public Tuesday afternoon with what they touted as a compromise: limiting rent increases to no more than 10 percent per year, only in cities and towns that opt in.
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Mayor Wu endorses compromise rent control proposal, saying it would ‘avoid a messy ballot initiative’ - The Boston Globe
Wu had previously signaled support for the ballot question, although somewhat begrudgingly, saying it was stricter than what she would have wanted for the City of Boston and that she would prefer a co...
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yes to legalizing starter homes and updating zoning policy. but the NYT invoking NYC to dismiss MA’s rent stabilization ballot initiative is a lazy take.
Opinion | How to Stop the Affluent From Rigging the Housing Market
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Always incredibly grateful for QuestBridge for my @tufts.edu experience!! Price tag is out of this world for first gen low income folks but they made it possible. Best years ngl
The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · 3mo agoAttending these New England schools can come with a jaw-dropping price tag. trib.al/N9lkiO8
Footage of @markey.senate.gov dancing during the Haitian Flag Day celebration. Kinda iconic
Check it out: City Hall has its own ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit)! Huge thanks to Backyard ADUs for showcasing beautiful small-scale housing. Open for tours through 5/17 at City Hall Plaza. ADUs help families stay together while supporting independence across generations.
The Senate voted 37 to 3 to pass the PROTECT Act, which takes important steps to protect immigrant communities and to ban formal and informal collaboration between state/local law enforcement and ICE. TY to all the advocates, activists, and legislators who worked on this! #mapoli
First time biking to work today! Super grateful for Boston’s bike to work day! Helped me be with a caravan of biking experts!!
BREAKING: The Massachusetts Senate just passed the PROTECT Act with an overwhelming bipartisan vote! With a similar vote in the House, the PROTECT Act is now headed to conference committee. We are one step closer to immigrant protections being signed into law! Let’s get this done 👏👏👏
Beautiful day for the State House to act on rent control legislation! (S.1447 and H.2328)
Access to books is highly restricted for people who are incarcerated. The Prison Book Program does incredible work getting books to them. Thanks to a matching donation, your gift will go twice as far this week.
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's Independent Bookstore Day! Hooray! Among many other things going on, the Prison Book Program matching donation program starts today! A generous donor will MATCH the dollar amount of all purchases off our Prison Program Wish List from now until May 2nd
Feeling very inspired, not just by all the awardees of the night but also by Progressive Mass's dedication to moving progressive legislation forward! Congrats, Senator Pat Jehlen, the staff of Field First, LUCE hotline, @jessjtang.bsky.social & @ruthz.bsky.social!
Progressive Mass@progressivemass.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe are honored to have @edmarkey.bsky.social as our featured speaker at our Virtual Awards Night on Sunday, April 26th! Join us to celebrate Awardees Senator Pat Jehlen, the staff of Field First, LUCE hotline, @jessjtang.bsky.social & @ruthz.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/pmvirtualawa...
This article is from Oct. 2025 but probably even more relevant! Definitely still very "cool" for people to sign up and help get rent control! dailyfreepress.com/10/28/21/215...
Advocates push for rent control ballot question, garner student support
As Boston students continue to grapple with skyrocketing rents, local housing nonprofit Fenway Forward is pushing to get a rent control measure on the statewide ballot for 2026. The organization is l...
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Great work from the Boston City Council this week! Love seeing action for affordable housing. Now patiently waiting for the state to act on transfer fees…
Councilor Ruthzee Louijeune@ruthzee.bsky.social · 4mo agoHere’s a recap of what happened this week at the Boston City Council: We passed a Home Rule Petition on transfer fees & senior tax relief; pushed for BPD body cam transparency; advanced parking reform; addressed private way potholes; and moved to rename Ruggles Station. Check it out 👉
