As Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's second term gets underway, WGBH News took to the streets to ask people to send a message to the mayor. Those we spoke to live, work or study in the greater Boston area, and their concerns range from affordable housing to fair education.
"Dear Mayor Walsh, I'd like you to not defund public schools," said Ebony Atwell, a student at Boston University who went through the Boston Public Schools system. She says during her senior year of high school, she participated in a walk-out to protest proposed cuts to her school's funding that would have targeted teachers who taught AP classes — a vital resource for Atwell and her mostly minority peers.
One former Boston resident, Olga Elias, who currently lives in Brookline, explained her frustration with the lack of reasonably priced housing in the city. She asked the mayor — for the sake of people she knows who live here — to put his efforts into providing more. "Every time I walk around, I see luxury housing, luxury apartments," Elias said.
Watch the video above to for all eight participants' messages to the mayor.
