Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced today she will formally contest the Census Bureau's Boston head count of 675,647, saying it leaves out significant numbers of students, inmates and foreign-born residents. Read more.
State Representative Byron Rushing says he believes that "lingering racism" in Boston is to blame for the loss of Black/African American residents in the city between 2000 and 2010.
E-mail the Boston Redevelopment Authority with a list of streets bordering a particular part of Boston and they promise to write back with detail
Although the 2010 federal census shows Boston went above 600,000 residents for the first time since 1970, neighborhood-level maps show large parts of Dorchester, Mattapan and Roslindale lost population over the past 10 years.