With a new fund and working in partnership with donors, nonprofits, philanthropy and others, we join Greater Boston in taking on the inequities made evident by COVID-19.
COVID-19 Response Fund
Join WGBH and King Boston, along with The Boston Foundation, for a live watch party and panel discussion on Roberto Mighty’s new film Legacy of Love. Legacy of Love brings to light the mostly unknown story of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott’s formative years in 1950s Boston.
Though our local economy was booming for years, it was failing to deliver for far too many households. With the COVID crisis providing new interest in the concept of providing guaranteed income to all residents, Boston Indicators explores one vehicle that could expand cash payments to thousands of households - building upon the state's Earned Income Tax Credit. Join us for the release of a new report and discussion.
Boston Indicators teams up with the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and the Economic Security Project to explore how an expansion of the state Earned Income Tax Credit could provide a guaranteed income stream, and improved financial security, to over 1.7 million Massachusetts residents in families earning less than $70,000 per year.
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In the second installment of the Greater Boston Housing Report Card report series, researchers from the UMass Donahue Institute highlight the links between decades of housing inequity and lack of affordability and the spread of COVID-19 in 2020.
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A new study from the Housing Discrimination Testing Program at Suffolk University Law School, supported by the Boston Foundation, finds strong evidence of discrimination against Black and lower-income renters by agents and housing providers in Boston.
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The first brief from the 2020 Greater Boston Housing Report Card team focuses on the remarkable impact COVID-19 and the resulting economic disruption has had on homeowners and renters.
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The Boston Indicators team and partners from the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and the Economica Security Project discuss a big idea for giving hundreds of thousands of state residents a guaranteed minimum income - and a ready-made vehicle to do it.
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The results of a major report funded by the Boston Foundation and the Racial Justice Fund, with research led by the Suffolk University Law School Housing Discrimination Testing Program and Analysis Group, Inc., revealed such extreme degrees of race and voucher discrimination in the Greater Boston rental market that it surprised even the researchers.
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In a wide-ranging discussion, Vice President for Programs Orlando Watkins and others talked with Andre Perry of the Brookings Institution about the insights and revelations in his new book, "Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America's Black Cities," and what Boston can and should learn from it.
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