Municipal Candidate Forum on October 10 @ 6:30pm

[ian_winterhill]

The Affordable Housing Organizing Committee, the Union United Coalition, and the Winter Hill Neighborhood Association are hosting a candidates’ forum in the lead-up to the November municipal election. The questions posed during the forum will focus on issues of affordable housing, development, and displacement in Somerville.

All candidates have been asked to fill out a questionnaire on affordable housing and development without displacement. The questions asked at the forum will be a subset of the questions in the questionnaire. We will publicize the answers online a week before the forum, to allow the greatest possible number of residents the chance to learn about the candidates’ positions on these important community issues.

Hope to see you there!

You can RSVP here 

Comments

[auntycourtney]

I researched the Affordable Housing Organizing Committee assuming it was a City of Somerville committee, but it seems it's yet another collection of people organized by the Somerville Community Corporation. I wanted to mention it, because the post reads as though there are 3 entities hosting this forum when, in reality, the organizing base of 2 out of the 3 is the same - SCC.

[mem_winterhill]

This is very cool--WHNA gets noticed in the Boston Globe. Glad to see that. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/north/2017/10/05/somerville-hold-forum-for-aldermen-candidates/xrPw3EaMw2munTtJUEl9nJ/story.html

[mem_winterhill]

For anyone still working on their research and decisions--there's a fun At-Large candidate profile story here:

http://scoutsomerville.com/alderman-large-candidate-profiles/

You know, I think we are lucky to have some very fine choices. Glad to see these smart and interesting people running for office.