August 24, 2016
Mayor Martin Walsh announced this week that East Boston resident and former First Suffolk and Middlesex senatorial candidate, Lydia Edwards, will head the city’s newly formed Office of Housing Stability. The new Office of Housing Stability will be part of the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development and as a Deputy Director, Edwards will be responsible for creating programs to assist Bostonians in housing crisis. One issue LaMattina said he would work with Edwards on is the proliferation of Airbnbs in neighborhoods like East Boston. “I’m not against Airbnb but what I am not in favor of is investors coming in, buying a property, evicting out tenants and then renting out the apartments for the short term on Airbnb,” said LaMattina. “I think it destabilizes a community because you are taking much-needed rental housing off the market.”…
Source: http://www.eastietimes.com/2016/08/24/lydia-edwards-to-head-office-of-housing-stability/
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