#workforce-housing

#workforce-housing

We cannot pay our staff sufficient wages to live in comfort and dignity in this area.

Everyone deserves an affordable, stable place to call home. In Boston, a housing affordability crisis - marked by skyrocketing housing costs, gentrification, and displacement - threatens that fundamental right for too many residents. We need strong leadership to ensure Boston remains a city where everyone can live and thrive, not just the wealthy. Our housing system is broken and requires immediate action.

Logistical challenge of housing the workforce necessary for the project set to become a headache Cost overruns on the multi-billion euro MetroLink project are expected to be split between the State and contractors to avoid repeating mistakes of the new National Children's Hospital, which has seen massive budget overruns. New documents obtained by the Sunday Independent also reveal that developers leading the project will be incentivised to deliver the underground railway on budget and on time.

In 2018, Jefferson Union went to the voters of Daly City to ask them to fund a $33 million bond to build workforce housing on a large lot the district owned near Interstate 280.