WEBCHAT: Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong
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With all the homelessness in Massachusetts, why aren’t cities and towns complying with the 10 year Presidential plan to end homelessness? Check out United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. Massachusetts needs to address new developments and how they are not complying with the 10% plan to end homelessness. The alleged ‘affordable housing’ does not include those persons making under $42,000. There is a housing crisis in this state and as you probably aware, approximately 222,000 people fled Massachusetts in the past 2 years. People cannot afford to live in this state, or be expected to raise their families on $7-10 per hour. The living wage should at least be $17, however, businesses in this state insist on offering even college students somewhere in the $30,000 range for even entry level positions. If we go to school, sometimes for years, shouldn’t we be starting off at least at $40,000 given the education, the high cost of living in this state? Not to mention the broken transportation system that is ineffective or does not coordinate with jobs, school etc. Take the local bussing in Lawrence, Methuen. There are no signs to even inform people where to stand. They are still on the old system of flagging the bus driver down. When I went to school at NECCO in Haverhill, I was without a vehicle and had to go through Methuen, back to Lawrence,change to another bus going back through Methuen and then get dropped off on Broadway. It took me an hour to go from NECCO to get back to my house. If it doesn’t work, we need to fix it. People are still being offered the wages that were made 10-20 years ago. Since President Clinton signed NAFTA over 10 years ago, all the factories jobs went overseas and he left Americans in the dust who used to make well over 12-15 per hour. These former factory workers are now making $7-10 per hour thanks to Clinton and then have to work 2-3 jobs to compensate for the lost income. There needs to be development to include ALL level of income/people including the transportation issue, then maybe we can reduce the amount of carbons to contribute stopping global warming. It seems that its all about greed and money that is being generated, but people are being left out of a better life.
Massachusetts is the 3rd highest cost of living state in the country.
Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless will be having an event at the statehouse. One of the speakers will be from Amnesty International along with other important government officials addressing housing in this state on February 26, 2008.
Trying to survive in this state…..even as a grad student,