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The housing situation in Boston is at crisis level already with no signs of improving. This city has some of the best schools in the country and attracts some of the most ambitious and passionate young people in the world but can't figure out how to house them or transport them.

Busses and trains are invariably packed beyond capacity, no one can afford their own place, and landlords aren't held accountable for property quality. Blame decades of zoning laws and historical fetishism that prevented high rises from being built and kept us all in buildings with single pane windows and only three bedrooms. At least they have pretty old bricks outside....



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