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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈

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reporter & occasional photog @masslive.bsky.social covering housing and Greater Boston || she/her || there has never been a sadness that can't be cured by breakfast food

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Scott Kirsner @skirsner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Photos and @trealavery.bsky.social coverage of yesterday's Most Influential Innovators breakfast in Cambridge, featuring conversations with Nobel laureate Phil Sharp, Anantha Chandrakasan of MIT, Jason Spoor of Aspen Aero Group, and MA econ. dev. chief Eric Paley. www.masslive.com/business/202...
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 10/06/2025
New at Media Nation: Journalists covering the unrest in LA are being obstructed, assaulted and injured.
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Journalists covering the unrest in LA are being obstructed, assaulted and injured
You may have seen the video. Lauren Tomasi of 9News in Australia is doing a standup in the middle of a Los Angeles street. Behind her, some distance away, are uniformed police officers. She tells v…
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Milford High student released from ICE detention: ‘Nobody should be in here’ www.masslive.com/news/2025/06...
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Milford High student released from ICE detention: ‘Nobody should be in here’ (video)
Marcelo Gomes Da Silva spoke outside a Burlington ICE facility Thursday after he was released from custody. "It’s not a good spot to be," he said.
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A new DOJ policy allows immigration judges to dismiss asylum cases without a hearing: www.masslive.com/news/2025/05...
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Immigration attorneys scramble to protect clients as DOJ quietly changes asylum policy
An April memo from the Department of Justice directs immigration judges to throw out asylum applications deemed "legally insufficient."
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Section 8 housing voucher changes in Mass. could increase costs for renters www.masslive.com/news/2025/03...
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Massachusetts to end Section 8 rent relief policies due to federal funding cuts
Renters with federally funded housing vouchers may soon see increases in their monthly housing costs due to funding cuts.
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
this is how you open a PR email
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Good morning! I’ll be in court in Boston today for day 1 of the trial in the lawsuit over the White Stadium project. Here’s what you should know: www.masslive.com/news/2025/03...
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Lawsuit over Boston’s White Stadium renovation heads to trial. What to know
The trial in the lawsuit to stop the renovation of Franklin Park's historic White Stadium begins Tuesday in Boston. As the case begins, here's what you should know.
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The MBTA Communities Act has been in the news a lot lately because some towns are fighting back, but at the same time, thousands of new homes are already in the pipeline. www.masslive.com/news/2025/03...
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“Housing is the secret sauce”: How one city is using a new law to revitalize its downtown
Despite some cities and towns fighting against MBTA Communities Act multi-family development zoning, more than 3,000 new housing units are in the pipeline, according to the state.
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Been watching Mayor Wu's testimony before Congress alongside other mayors of "sanctuary cities." Keep up here: www.masslive.com/news/2025/03...
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LIVE: Boston Mayor Wu testifies before Congress on sanctuary city policies
A GOP-led committee is questioning mayors on their limited cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Boston's Mayor Wu argues the policy keeps the city safe and builds trust with diverse commu...
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Boston Mayor Wu’s bike lane push sparks praise, protest and a campaign issue www.masslive.com/news/2025/02...
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Boston Mayor Wu’s bike lane push sparks praise, protest and a campaign issue
Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft drew heavy applause when he promised to pause new bike lanes if elected.
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Women’s soccer sees rapid growth as BOS Nation bets big on White Stadium www.masslive.com/news/2025/01...
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Boston residents question public funding for BOS Nation stadium deal
The price tag for renovating White Stadium for the new BOS Nation NWSL team has skyrocketed to $200 million. Find out why the city says it's worth every penny.
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Trump sparks fear of mass deportations among Bay State immigrants www.masslive.com/news/2025/01...
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Trump sparks fear of mass deportations among Bay State immigrants
Immigrant communities brace for increased ICE raids and targeting of sanctuary cities like Boston.
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PolitiFact @politifact.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
In his inauguration speech, Trump repeated the claim that the Biden administration provided “sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions that have illegally entered our country from all over the world." Pants on Fire! www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
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Trump’s absurd claim about “millions” of criminal immigrant
Former President Donald Trump, who has promised to carry out the "largest domestic deportation operation" in U.S. histor
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Needham voters reject ambitious zoning plan to allow more housing www.masslive.com/news/2025/01...
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Needham voters reject ambitious zoning plan to allow more housing
Voters in Needham have overturned a zoning plan that would have allowed multifamily housing, going above and beyond the requirements under the state's MBTA Communities Act.
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I got to visit Cambridge Typewriter Co. last week and speak with owner Tom Furrier, who announced recently that the store will close this spring after more than 50 years in business. www.masslive.com/business/202...
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From forestry to typewriters: The unexpected career of Thomas Furrier
A typewriter store that has been serving the Boston area for more than half a century will close up shop this spring.
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Needham will be voting tomorrow on whether to uphold the MBTA Communities zoning approved at town meeting in October, less than a week after the SJC ruled the law constitutional: www.masslive.com/news/2025/01...
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Will Needham follow the law? Town vote to test new housing ruling
Massachusetts' highest court just decided the state could force certain communities to allow multi-family housing. Will Needham comply?
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
SJC has ruled (mostly) in favor of the AG in her lawsuit against Milton for not following the MBTA Communities law: www.masslive.com/news/2025/01...
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State can force towns to allow more housing, court rules — but there’s a catch
The state's highest court mostly sided with the state about a controversial housing law affecting communities, but with an important caveat.
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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Current debate about broker fees in MA seems like a great time to reup this 2023 Globe report that there were more landlords than renters in the state legislature. Not just more homeowners, which probably goes without saying: more LANDLORDS than renters. www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/21/m...
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Massachusetts Legislature, hostile to rent control, includes more landlords than renters - The Boston Globe
As lawmakers mull proposals aimed at addressing the housing crisis, more of them could lose income from the return of rent control than those who would benefit from its protections, a Globe investigat...
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Tréa Lavery 🏳️‍🌈 @trealavery.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hello and good morning, bluesky! Wanted to share a story that came out this morning. I hear so often about how supposedly "affordable housing" is still too expensive, and I wanted to see why that was. The answer is...it's complicated. www.masslive.com/news/2024/12...
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For many, 'affordable' housing is still out of reach. Here's why
Affordable housing is lauded as an answer to the housing crisis, providing an option for low-income tenants. But for many who need it most, that option is still financially out of reach.
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