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A hearing this week on affordable housing in Boston turned emotional: "'Gentrification is destabilizing our communities,' Jackson said in one of many flaming missives. Hearing stories of those being displaced, he added, 'My heart went out. I knew we had to step forward … We are not going to allow poor folks to get displaced in this city!'" Mayor Walsh's housing plan can't come soon enough for some, but will it be enough? [Dig]