Image courtesy of Dorchester Not For SaleA group of activists from various Boston neighborhoods marched through Fields Corner on June 29th, 2019, demanding a 6-month delay to the Glover’s Corner Plan, a 65% rate of affordability in area housing to “match current incomes in the area,” and an “end to the displacement of residents in Dorchester and in all of Boston’s working-class communities.”
The demonstration, led by the anti-displacement organization Dorchester Not for Sale (DNFS), followed a “democratic assembly” held at Dorchester’s Vietnamese American Community Center to work on a “Boston People’s Plan for the future of housing in the city.” The march concluded with a rally at Dot Block, a recently-approved development that DNFS members say “will only deepen the crisis of displacement in Boston’s neighborhoods.”
“Plan Glover’s Corner focuses on upzoning for luxury housing, corporations, and jobs that most of our people won’t have access to. Our people can’t afford any of this. This also has a ripple effect; we know that when Dot Block, the face of Glover’s Corner, gets built then housing nearby the development will also flip,” said at the “democratic assembly” Angelina Hua, a Dorchester resident and organizer with DNFS.
According to the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA), the Dorchester Glover’s Corner plan is a “comprehensive planning initiative in partnership with the community” to determine a “shared vision” for the future of Glover’s Corner. Several workshops and “community conversations” have been held to discuss the plan, but DNFS denounced that their concerns have not been taken into account.
