Boston construction: How sky high costs drive the housing crisis
Many forces drive the housing crisis here, and the sky-high cost of construction is one of the most powerful.
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Many forces drive the housing crisis here, and the sky-high cost of construction is one of the most powerful.
The end of rent control three decades ago helped push many working people out of a Fenway apartment building — and out of Boston. Their stories speak to one of the causes of the current housing crisis, and to the increasing demands that rent caps return.
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For a time, the case sparked an unusual spate of self-examination in the press. But the questions it raised — about how to cover communities of color and about whose stories are valued — were never resolved and resonate to this day. So it’s time to reckon with what happened.
After the shooting of Charles and Carol Stuart, the police descended on Mission Hill.