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Housing Issues In Boston: Guidelines For Options And Strategies, Joseph S. Slavet
Housing Issues In Boston: Guidelines For Options And Strategies, Joseph S. Slavet
John M. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Publications
Most of the recent analyses of Boston's housing problem reveal a complex and contradictory mix of positive trends and negative factors, clouded by a growing percentage of poor and near-poor resident households in the City and declining commitments by the federal government to housing, particularly for subsidies of new housing production.
That Boston's housing problem, unlike that of many other large cities, is of manageable proportions, however, is attributable mainly to the following demographic trends and forecasts that are not likely to exacerbate the problem and that many even ease some of the most serious current and future pressures of …