“As far as the future goes, Boston needs to work on their transportation, a frequent complaint, and work on being a more accepting area in general. Boston needs to work toward protecting victims of oppression and helping each other.” - Kaelin
“The City of Boston will only be affordable for the rich unless residents make the issue of gentrification aware to their communities and everyone else.” - Aisha
“Boston needs to focus on everyone, rather than just the newer, wealthier citizens. Boston needs to be more protective of the communities that were once strong, in order to keep the culture alive. The once family-oriented city seems to have lost all of the appealing social aspects.” - Erin
“Whether you are new to the neighborhood or just moved in, the effects of the gentrification in Boston are seen by everyone. In some neighborhoods, the only thing that feels the same in the fact that it’s always changing.” - Issac
“Changes in a community are not always either bad or good. Bostonians tend to react to these changes are usually with an open mind. It is hard to avoid gentrification, with it happening everywhere. We should accept these benefits as a community, but not shed light away from any negatives either.” - Arianna and Reese
“Although new “yuppies” are coming into Boston, communities need to stick together and work to keep their communities values intact. Perspective means everything when it comes to discussing how Boston has changed. Where you come from, who you are, and your life experiences make up your views.” - Katie and Maeve
“Boston’s future can only be determined by the youth themselves. If the youth decide to acknowledge and celebrate everyone’s background, we will only go up, but if not then Boston might become more segregated than it actually is.” - Carol
“Currently, Boston is a fast growing city where people are constantly moving in, and as a result, people are constantly being displaced. Nevertheless, Boston residents are doing their best to stay afloat, and create a promising future for themselves. Boston is never going to stop moving and changing. Hopefully, under-resourced communities are not the only ones that are seeing the negative effects of gentrification and the drastic change of community. Boston’s future looks expensive and we hope that somehow it will benefit those who already live here.” - Arianna and Emma
“All Boston neighborhoods have the potential to grow and flourish as a community in the future if they stop the violence and crime and make it so that the people living in the neighborhoods feel more at home there. They can also diversify the neighborhoods more, as a way to incorporate everyone, and form a strong and welcoming neighborhood and community. We must do better.” - Whitney
“There is a lot of media out there that paints the picture that Boston is a very diverse and accepting city. I was told time and time again that this is clearly not the case. Not all neighborhoods are created equal in Boston.” - Alana
“Neighborhoods are held together by the people and their surroundings. If those people are being pushed out, there’s no longer a neighborhood feel. It will just be another ordinary town.” - Ashleigh
“We realized that people outside of Boston believe that Boston is the beacon of a good education, but people who live in Boston disagreed. They don’t know what the lower class and people of color go through; we don’t get that opportunity to receive that good education.” - Lydia and Ada
“In today’s Boston, it can be hard for people to maintain personal relationships in because the rise costs of surviving takes up a lot of their time. Most people even have to keep more than one job to stay afloat. At the current rate, Boston will become extremely exclusive. To avoid this there must be more opportunities opened up to the working class people of Boston and the costs of living need to be combated. ” - Kameryn and Grace
“It just pure facts. Boston’s future will lack the diversity that it has created, and it will cause people to move out, making it whiter then it is.” - Tesean