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Many Boston residents are struggling to cope with the rising prices of homes and 
frequent evictions. Local organizations like City Life/Vida Urbana are focused on increasing the availability of affordable housing. KATIE GODERE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Bostonians continue fight to keep their homes amid housing crisis

Daily Free Press Staff October 10, 2018
Frezzia Herrera and her husband were given a 14-day eviction notice to leave their Roxbury apartment in 2013. Instead of leaving, the couple said they chose to fight the notice, and since then, they have spent the past five years pushing back against the eviction and annual rent increases with lawyers.
East Boston residents rallied against unfair evictions and a proposed substation site in a march Saturday afternoon. PHOTO COURTESY OF TROY SANKEY

Residents unite to fight proposed East Boston substation site, address community issues

Samantha Drysdale September 11, 2018
Bostonians were bound together in a circle by the strength of their joined hands.
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