What issues do you think the City Council should prioritize this year?

Rent control, definitely. We’re being moved out farther and farther. People are moving to Brockton and New Bedford, but all the jobs and resources are here.

Ashesha Rockett

Student
Hyde Park

Finding a way to control rents. It’s been out of hand for quite some time. They’re putting up new buildings, but who’s getting them? We need to bring back rent control.

Tarsha O’Neal

Environmental Services
Roxbury

Housing. It’s becoming too much for our people to stay in the communities they grew up in. People are moving to Fall River, Rhode Island. We’re being displaced.

Danielle Ruffin

Student
Roxbury

Housing. It seems like the people who have sustained this city for years are being pushed out by the mayor’s idea of growth.

Michael Raines

Security
Roxbury

The drug epidemic. Opioids, fentanyl. A lot of people are dying in this city.

Cary Harris

Retired Social Worker
Mattapan

Crime. There are too many shootings. There was a young man killed on my street. Give the young people something to do.

Tina Anderson

Driver
Dorchester