By Lindsey Stokes
Staff Writer
Hundreds gathered at the Vietnamese American Community Center in Dorchester on Saturday to protest what organizers are calling a housing crisis.
Neighborhood organizations in and around Dorchester claim landlords are displacing the poor and traditional communities of color by setting rent prices high above what most earn.
The event, dubbed the 2015 Right to Remain Boston drew crowds from nearly all neighborhoods in Dorchester. Participants marched as they called on residents to reclaim their neighborhoods.
They shared stories of struggle, evictions, and court battles while intimating the troublesome consequences of new development.
The Right to Remain Coalition is asking elected officials to support just-cause ordinances for evictions, which only allow a landlord to evict a tenant if they meet requirements on a predetermined list.
This would eliminate no-fault evictions and curb the ability the “flip” properties.
