Press Release: 7/29/2025
Let Your Legislators Know: MA Wants Rent Control
Massachusetts has a housing crisis, and we need every tool in the toolbox.
Too many working-class individuals and families are being priced out of their communities and the Commonwealth entirely due to ever-growing rents. But Beacon Hill can take action.
Join Homes for All Massachusetts tomorrow for a rally in the State House (Grand Staircase) the State House at 11:30 am before the 1 pm hearing on rent control at 1 pm in Gardner Auditorium.
Here's what you need to prepare:
- RSVP for rally here
- Find the testimony guide here
- Email written testimony here: jointcommittee.municipalities®ionalgovernment@malegislature.gov
- Email your state rep and state senator in support.
Healey Wants to Spend $360 Million on a New Prison. Tell Her No Way.
For years, our friends at Families for Justice as Healing have been organizing against a proposed $50 million new women's prison to replace MCI-Framingham.
How has Governor Maura Healey responded? By proposing a $360 million new women's prison.
Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and girls have been clear: what we need is not a new prison, but greater programming for those currently incarcerated, better reentry programs for people when they return to community, and greater community investments in housing, health care, education, and economic security and opportunity.
Think of how much that $360 million could do if it went instead to keeping communities safe and ending cycles of incarceration and harm.
Join FJaH in telling Governor Healey to stop the $360 million new women's prison with the action toolkit at bit.ly/FreeHerMA.
Call daily between 9am and 5pm only - (617) 725-4005
Email any time using this form: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/email-the-governors-office
Sample Email/Script:
“Hello, my name is _________________ and I am your constituent. I oppose your plan to build a $360 million women’s prison. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars on prison construction is not investing in people’s wellbeing and will not make our communities safer. Our communities need this money for housing, healing, healthcare, treatment and more. We could actually make Massachusetts a model for the rest of the country by releasing many more women and implementing alternatives to incarceration rather than building yet another prison.”
Share Your Fair Share Story
On November 8, 2022, Massachusetts voters passed Question 1: the Fair Share Amendment. We chose a fairer tax system, guaranteeing that the richest one percent will pay more to fund our public schools, colleges, roads, bridges, and public transit. Now, Fair Share is at work, already funding more than $6 billion in transportation and public education investments—with more to come. See a list of Fair Share investments to date at fairsharema.com.
How is the Fair Share Amendment positively impacting your life, family or work?
- Are your children receiving free school meals, or learning in a newly-renovated school building?
- Are you riding a regional transit authority bus for free, or paying a reduced fare on the MBTA?
- Are you attending tuition-community college, or receiving state financial aid to make public college more affordable?
- Are you driving on newly paved roads, or riding on subway trains that are faster?
- Are you receiving child care financial assistance, or sending your child to a child care program that's benefitted from new grants to child care providers?
- Is your city or town receiving more money for local roads and schools? (hint: if you live in Massachusetts, the answer is YES!)
Raise Up Massachusetts is collecting stories about the many ways the Fair Share Amendment is making a difference in the lives of Massachusetts residents. If you have a story about how Fair Share is positively impacting your life, family or work, please share it with us here.
Progressive Mass's New "Power Lunch" Series
What comes after calling your state rep and state senator? Getting others to do so as well.
Join Progressive Mass for our "Power Lunch" phone bank series (Thursdays at noon), where we will be building our collective power in service of a better Commonwealth for all.
