The Jamaica Plain-based City Life/Vida Urbana group holds weekly meetings in East Boston, where tenants facing rent increases and evictions can seek counseling and help. Meanwhile, tenants in the neighborhood’s multifamily apartment buildings are facing evictions and building clear-outs as longtime owners sell to developers ready to convert the units into luxury dwellings. “They reflect the needs of folks who don’t live here yet.” “They don’t reflect the needs of the neighborhood,” she said. The new developments, Edwards said, aren’t aimed at the people currently living there. Locals under pressureĪmid a construction boom dominated by studio and one-bedroom apartments, Edwards points out that the average household currently in East Boston has 2.66 people. Clippership Apartments on the Wharf lists studio units at prices from $2,339 to $2,619. At Boston East, a 499-square-foot one-bedroom apartment is listed at $2,306. “The concern is, are we creating housing for the people who live here, or the people who are moving us out?”Īt The Eddy, the rent for studio apartments starts at $2,000. “We’ve known displacement was coming since we saw development come to the waterfront in 2013,” said Gloribel Mota, who grew up in the neighborhood and is executive director of Neighbors United for a Better East Boston. Many longtime East Boston residents fear that the new developments, rather than bring opportunities for residents of the predominantly Latino and Italian neighborhood, will instead bring displacement. To the west, the 16-story Eddy Apartments - which opened in 2016 as the neighborhood’s first luxury tower - now dominates the skyline. Like much of the new development in the neighborhoods, The Mark will literally cancel out much of old East Boston’s vantage point, blocking Maverick Landing residents and others from their view of the waterfront and downtown Boston. “Breaking down barriers of poverty.”īut just across the street, The Mark, a six-to-nine-story luxury building currently under development, is marketing its luxury units with the tagline: “Welcome to East Boston’s new vantage point.” “This is how you develop housing,” she said. The Clippership Wharf building under construction in East Boston.
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