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