The second-term Boston City councilor was sworn in as council president this week and pledges to run a more civil council.
Ruthzee Louijeune, Boston's new city council president, speaking with Tiziana Dearing during the broadcast of Radio Boston Thursday.
In an appearance on WBUR's Radio Boston, she said she will make civility on the council a priority for her presidency."People try to talk about 'old Boston' and 'new Boston,' and I think that language is intentionally divisive," Louijeune said, alluding to long-simmering tensions between the council's more moderate, historically Irish Catholic faction and the growing ranks of progressive, mostly non-white councilors.
As for policy priorities for this term, Louijeune said one key area for her is improving access to housing."I'm bringing both my background as an attorney who represented families facing eviction, and as a daughter of parents who bought a house in 1996 that they wouldn't have been able to buy today," she said."We have a city that is too unaffordable for too many of our working class families and too many of our black and brown families.
The council president said she supports Mayor Michelle Wu's efforts to change local zoning to allow for more housing production, and to pass a real estate transfer tax that would be used to fund public housing development.
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