YES! Making vouchers work better is critical for people to thrive. When housing costs are capped at 30% of income, we’re better able to pay for all of the things our families need - food, transportation, health care. Reducing housing stress enables us to live; not just survive.

Despite decades of false “sky is falling” alarmism by the well-funded landlord lobby, rent control has done more to keep housing affordable and keep people in affordable housing than any other program. —Cea Weaver thehill.com/opinion/financ…

FTW after four years of struggle and fighting eviction 6 families and many more after them will have permanently affordable housing. Congratulations to the BNCLT and the tenants who fought tenaciously. #boston

As eviction filings climb to pre-COVID levels, the decision not to advance #RightToCounsel bills is deeply disappointing. Read our full statement here: massrtc.org/uploads/2/7/0/… #mapoli

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 Support House Amendment 176! Contact your Rep & others ASAP & ask them to co-sponsor Amendment #176 to Econ Dev Bill H. 5007 in support of Transfer Fees for Affordable Housing! Tell #mapoli we need this NOW! #AffordableHousingForAll Fact sheet 👇

In #LynnMA & across the state, we need a real estate transfer fee to support affordable housing. This piece in The Daily Item explains why. Follow Local Option for Housing Affordability Coalition for more & take action at secure.everyaction.com/34NPqnluBUensm…

🛑 Stop calling middle income housing “workforce housing.” It’s described as housing for teachers, firefighters, police – predominately white professions - & often is a euphemism for apartments for white people. Also - people w/the lowest incomes work!

.Local Option for Housing Affordability Coalition is committed to continuing our fight for affordable housing. Thank you to our champions Jo Comerford and Mike Connolly, and to each and every member, org and elected who has supported this critical tool. Onward we go!

We’re here in Somerville this morning to protest a 44% rent hike imposed on three Brazilian working-class families who must agree to this unconscionable rent hike or vacate by the end of August. We must lift the ban on local rent control and implement a program of #HousingForAll.

I’ve got a comprehensive platform for addressing our sky-high housing costs—apparently not everyone's thrilled about that, because a dark-money realtors PAC is spending more than $8,400 supporting my opponent. raulforrep.com/housing

We're so excited to be bringing this incredible exhibit to the community! Huge thanks to Somerville Media Center 🎤🎥🎙📺 for helping us get the word out!

⚡️We MUST “#decommodify” housing! Social housing is the ANSWER. PASS #TOPA to get us CLOSER to #decommodify” housing and securing more homes for long term affordability. STOP allowing real estate giants buy out OUR neighborhoods and price us out! #MaPoli thebaffler.com/latest/decommo…

Thank you to @Cambridge_NAACP for hosting the 37th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. brunch this morning. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley delivered an inspired and moving keynote address, after an incredible introduction by Elizabeth Warren. Congrats to all of today’s award winners!

This morning, I attended the most powerful, inspiring #affordablehousing rally in my career - organized by the intersectional, interfaith powerhouse GBIO, kicking off its #HousingJustice Campaign! #GBIO’s “slow thunder” #housing has begun, Governor Maura Healey & #maleg! #mapoli

You know you’re fighting the good fight when Ayanna Pressley AG Andrea Joy Campbell and Ruthzee Louijeune are on the same side The legislature let Chapter 257 expire yesterday but we aren’t done fighting yet and won’t be until these protections are back in place and permanent boston.com/real-estate/re…

Thank you AG Andrea Joy Campbell for your testimony yesterday in support of Access to Counsel, HOMES eviction record sealing, & Chapter 257 eviction protections! You underscored the need for all these crucial bills. #mapoli

Just me and 300 of of my best friends who took buses from every corner of Massachusetts to tell the State House why we need to lift the ban on rent control and prevent foreclosures. The message is crystal clear Beacon Hill! #LiftTheBanMA #StopForeclosuresMA

GBIO is in full support of the local option for the Real Estate Transfer Fee. GBIO leader Linda Hill and GBIO ED/Lead Organizer Kathleen Patrón offered strong support at the Local Option for Housing Affordability Coalition lobby day. We look forward to getting it done this legislative session! #mapoli

Join us this Monday, November 20, from 4 to 5 p.m. in front of the Massachusetts State House for a candlelight vigil organized by the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, and allied organizations 🕯️

My latest newsletter is about defending the Right To Shelter Law on Beacon Hill. I oppose time-limits because they don't address actual barriers to exiting shelter. Instead, we have to make bigger investments in the solution to homelessness, i.e. housing. repmikeconnolly.org/defending_the_…