Thanks for filling out  Somerville YIMBY 2025 Election Survey Here's what was received. Somerville YIMBY 2025 Election Survey Dear Candidates, Thank you for taking the Somerville YIMBY endorsement survey. We appreciate your time with this survey and your candidacy. If you'd like to compose answers outside of Google Forms, we've provided copies of the mayoral candidate questions and city council candidate questions as separate documents. About Somerville YIMBY Somerville YIMBY is an all-volunteer group that supports the city’s goal of becoming a place where all are welcome, and where housing choices are abundant. We believe that construction of new homes is especially important for: People with disabilities, who need the accessibility features present in new construction and renovations.  The environment, because living in cities like Somerville allows people to reduce their car-based carbon emissions, and because new construction is more efficient than old Elders, w...

Since we last spoke I've kept messaging along lines of keeping families in Somerville, Affordable Housing. I discussed basic needs with Sonia Conde of Padres Latinos and Rev. Jordan Harris of Connexion and attended the Anti-Displacement Task Force  Reportback . At the sole budget hearing open to public comment, I said continuing the particulate pilot funding is crucial for environmental justice and that I was opposed to cutting the Racial and Social Justice Department to increase funding of the police. Lately, I've door knocked on 18 streets in East Somerville. Over $3000 raised. Your dollars are going to Human Rights, not a popularity contest. A Somerville City Councilor who served ten years said this was inefficient because the poor don't vote. Around the corner from the East Somerville T-station, a resident who bought a house there thirty years ago said no Councilor had ever knocked on his door. It's true, I might have attended the Thursday Films at the Park Series b...

  I was door knocking with a big volume to ground me and a resident asked. "Just comics" I lied. I was bored on Tufts Street when I opened to Dinesh D'Souza's essay "Ignoble Savages" which stunned me, and on the train home, I read Toni Morrison's essay "Playing in the Dark," which unpacks the oblivious racism: "On July 12, 1776, he records with astonishment and hurt suprise a slave rebellion on his plantation: 'Judge my surprise...Of what avail is kindness & good usage when rewarded by such ingratitude.' 'Constantly bewildere,' Bailyn goes on, 'by his slaves' behavior...[Dunbar] recovered two runaways and 'condemned them to receive 500 lashes each at five different times, and to carry a chain & log 'fixt to the ancle.'" Three weeks ago, after receiving a housing questionnaire, I drew from  Housing the Nation  for inspiration posting of projects to social media . The Jennings in New York and ...