Please Stand By Please Stand By Please Stand By Please Stand By Please Stand By Please Stand By >> I'm Tori Bedford.

Tonight on Greater Boston, sky high rent and .. We hear from one of them.

Why are the 1980's and 1990's still so impac.. We took a stroll down memory lane with the co.. A performance from the nearly 50-year-old Tu.. Nearly $125,000, that is the annual salary yo.. That is well above the median household inco..

It is forcing people out.

According to a new survey from the greater Bo..

This is one of those residents, he joins me ..

Thank you both for being here.

Begin by sharing your story.

You were living in East Boston, and you star.. >> correct.

I was living in East Boston about -- more th..

But in the last apartment I was living, I li.. We never failed to pay on time.

Then things started to happen.

The landlord first told me they would increa..

But my worry was they were going to increase ..

They did about 35%.

After that, they said they would not increase.. After that, that is when I was able to contac..

Eventually we got to an agreement, and I had.. >> where do you live now?

>> first we moved -- now I'm living in Malden.

But at that time, we were literally displaced.

Because we are a family.

And we had to go to different places.

>> you are talking about your wife and son?

>> My son and my mother.

And my niece.

>> are you together now?

>> no, we are displaced because we had to fi..

But we are still trying to get our own apartm.. >> you are living in single rooms in differe.. >> correct.

>> do you miss what you had in East Boston?

>> of course course.

I have been there for more than 20 years.

Everything was pretty much closed.

My work was close.

It -- we considered it a very safe place for..

Unfortunately right now, we need rent control.

Rent control to keep families together.

Because they literally displaced one family.

It is not just us.

It is more, hundreds of families are being di..

Especially from the Boston area.

>> a lot of people are being pushed out.

This survey from the greater Boston Chamber o..

They asked people about the factors in their..

I think for a lot of people, the homebuying p..

The same report said if they asked Greater Bo.. 65% likely to stay.

10% unsure.

Are you surprised by those results?

>> Not surprised at all.

We had a chapter in East Boston, his story is..

They are all examples of breakup of families .. All four the speculative role of the market a..

It is not like your water and sewer bills ar..

It is the accumulation of debt.

It is the question you raised about finding ..

In our efforts to keep people in the housing .. That is affecting not only of the individual.. >> It is changing the scope of the community.

You were living in East Boston for 20 years.

You stayed in the same apartment for 17 years.

You develop the relationship with that landlo.. >> I would think so.

>> I wonder if in those two decades he witne.. >> Definitely.

Because you see new buildings coming up.

Probably about four or five years is when th..

I've heard stories of people that they did th..

They think because the new buildings are gett..

So they are going by the market prices.

But from my point of view, it should not be ..

The buildings are there.

They all came back to do the maintenance.

Sometimes they don't even do maintenance.

>> That is something they have been dealing w..

The Boston foundation came up with one that .. You have been there for 24 years.

What do you make of the shift in the last few.. >> One thing that is happening in our organiz..

Encompassing all the nearby suburbs.

So we are trying to organize to protect peop.. >> What do you see as the solution here.

You have been doing this work for a long time.

I don't know if in the last few years you fe.. >> There are three things we could do.

Sometimes the displacement crisis is placed a..

But it is a human made thing.

If we had rent control which would go to scal.. We can make a serious dent in the displaceme..

In the process of doing that, we would be res.. >> You work on this larger goal as well.

You do advocacy.

Are you hoping to get to a place you can move.. >> Of course.

After we were displaced, that has been my ma..

But at the moment, I have not been able.

Let's hope we pass strong rent control at an .. >> How do you feel your life would be differe.. >> It would be at different.

It would be less stressful.

Right now, we are not living together.

But I hope we eventually get an apartment wh.. Because families are being displaced.

It is real.

It is not like someone is just saying it is b.. And it gets really stressful, believe me.

Because you start thinking a lot of things.

You even think about being homeless.

Even when you are being paid, -- when you hav.. Because you never thought you -- and somethin.. >> How old is your son?

>> About 25.

>> In your conversations with him and your m.. >> All the time.

Because right now, we lived in different parts.

We do get together and we visit each other.

>> And you have applied for one.

>> Keep us posted.

Let us know how that goes.

Thank you both so much.

>> Next up, with mom jeans back in style and..

Neither can the house of in retrospect.

A look back on the pop-culture trends, scanda.. One of them joins me now.

Thank you for being here.

I love this podcast, it is so much fun.

I also think -- there's a couple of threads t.. You have a long history in news and journali..

I wanted to ask -- you talk at one point abou..

The way you are addressing it, you raise impo.. Why did you decide to do this podcast about .. >> I think my career has been focused on har.. For me, it is getting an opportunity to look ..

I grew up on pop culture, I was born in Iran.. Like a lot of immigrants, I learned what it ..

This is how I learned about the country that.. For me, I think we often dismissed pop-cultur..

It is the way we tell our stories to each ot..

In the stories we choose to tell tell us a lo.. That is why we wanted to explore these issues.

>> So many of these episodes are just about i.. You are talking to my generation as well, gro.. Like Pamela Anderson's red swimsuit or Monica.. Talk about 1982 as the year of the woman wher..

I want to play this clip from the podcast wh..

I ought so much about this as well.

During the time where she shaved her head, ev.. And years and years later, we see her strugg.. Let's hear this clip about you.

Kind of analyzing the media coverage at the .. >> if there is one thing in the book that be.. How much of her life was controlled by their ..

I thought that was interesting because it has.. Now there are more safeguards in place, espec.. >> they were building the narrative we were ..

I think we were really young.

For a lot of us we were like this is what it ..

This is what the tabloids are telling us wha.. >> I think what happens is, especially with ..

It is easy to forget these are people.

We start to consume them as media, as stories.

I think this is something as journalists that.. Britney is a clear example of that.

For many years, she became this character an.. She was clearly having a mental health strug.. And when she does this thing, she shaved her..

There is a moment they are hounding her and s..

Finally she can and she does this dramatic th..

The assumption is she's suddenly doing this b..

In some ways, the media is creating the narra.. She is with her children often when they are ..

So I really developed such an empathy for he.. At the time, I consumed it like everyone else.

The way people are consuming the Kate Middlet.. >> yes, because Princess Di -- >> It is fun gossip.

And I'm not saying I don't indulge in that.

But when it is happening, it is important to..

If a man needed to take a couple months off f.. Would they be treated with the same intrigue .. And putting up the statement saying she does .. We see that over and over again.

>> It is interesting now.

What has been said is the British media has .. She is getting hounded and we all have consp..

The British media has been better about it no..

I love to hear your thoughts on the comparis.. >> I think they have gotten better.

There has been more backlash to paparazzi.

There is an improvement to some degree.

The laws in England are really different.

They do have to be more careful around the R..

I think more speculation is happening in the.. Because they have a little bit more guardrail.. That our First Amendment laws really allow.

I think there is some improvement, but what ..

In ways that we don't always realize we are d.. Meghan Markle is another example of this.

In a lot of ways, people see Meghan Markle as..

They have a hard time seeing her as a person ..

When they talk about her, they talk about her..

But we all make mistakes.

That is what we are looking at in the podcast.

Not just to look at what happened to these ot..

I feel empathy for a lot of these women beca.. And they were not in the glare of a national ..

Imagine being that age and it being overwhel..

I'm glad I got to make my mistakes in the sh.. >> You mentioned growing up and absorbing cu.. You did not have cables or you were watching ..

This gutter television that I also love.

>> and I still love, by the way.

I'm not above the housewives marathon.

I love all of those things.

I have a theory about the real housewives whi..

But it is a woman's workplace drama.

How many other shows do they gather five very.. We don't have that many spaces for women like..

It is not all just trash.

There are trashy elements.

There are things to learn about the world fr.. >> I cannot wait for the real housewives epi.. Susie, thank you so much for joining us.

>> thank you for having me.

>> the Grammy-winning took his quartet has be..

Currently comprised of Edward Dusenberry and.. >> now joining us is Richard O'Neill, one of ..

Welcome, it is great.

>> as great as the sound is, I say this about..

It is so difference in the presence of a musi..

I think we learned you have been playing toge.. How long have you been part of this?

>> I'm the newest newbie.

June of 2020.

I think Hiromi was 2018.

>> How long does it take for new players to m.. >> So many ways to answer that question.

I think we had a whole mixture of things goin.. Richard and I have been playing together for.. We were classmates -- >> Aware?

>> We went to Julliard and spent summers at t..

It is a small classical musical world, in ca.. We've all intertwined and played together in ..

But gelling together as a group takes time o..

But on the other hand, you learn on the job.

You learn on stage.

That makes it so fun.

>> Tell us about flow.

It is supposed to be something about what it ..

The Big Bang.

And before and right after.

>> She has a Divinity degree from Harvard.

A lot of amazing interest.

She spent quite a bit of time trying to figu.. What we are going to play for you is the thi..

The first dealt with the Big Bang.

The third movement is a Clark -- >> I don't even know what that is.

Explain it to the non-physics people.

>> A violist trying to explain physics -- >> .. >> The joke -- it was a joke.

In physics, I believe a proton is made up of .. And a neutron is made up of two down quarks .. >> What piece are you playing for us?

>> The.. >> Nice to meet you both.

# # # # # # # # >> That is it for tonight.

Come back tomorrow for Talking Politics.

Congressman Seth Moulton on his new call on .. And what separates the personal from the pol.. That and more at 7:00.

Thank you for watching.

I'm Tori Bedford.

Thank you.