“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” Maya Angelou This quote from one of America’s great poets got me thinking about the potential that exists in traveling […]
Money, infrastructure, policy changes, and a lot of collaboration are necessary to create and incentivize more affordable year-round housing on Martha’s Vineyard. Those were the take-aways of the first meeting of the island’s newly created Housing Action Task Force.
To the Editor: A little over a month ago, 250 Vineyarders traveled to the Massachusetts State House to fight for fair housing and encourage our legislators to vote for the Housing Bank. The trip was a huge success thanks to you, members of our community, who joined us in Boston, and our fellow Islanders who […]
Islanders rang out a message to state legislators on Thursday: legislation to create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank must advance to secure the community’s future. Activists from both Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket joined together for the “Martha Goes to Beacon Hill” event, organized by the Coalition to Create the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Bank, to push […]