Cindy F. Friedman was elected to the Massachusetts Senate on July 25, 2017, to represent the Fourth Middlesex District, which includes Arlington, Billerica, Burlington, Woburn, and precincts 1-2 and 4-7 of Lexington. Prior to becoming a state Senator, Cindy worked as a public school teacher, an executive in the high-tech industry, and later served for nearly a decade as chief of staff to the late Senator Ken Donnelly.
Our communities are stronger when all families have access to clean, affordable, high-quality housing options – options that allow people to remain living where they work or grew up. However, our state is facing a housing crisis that is making this more and more difficult for working families. We need to increase housing production (especially affordable housing) to keep pace with population growth, address gentrification so that revitalization doesn’t lead to displacement, and reform our zoning regulations to better streamline the housing production process.