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With rising rent costs and a surge of young professionals moving into the Boston area, residents are finding that locating affordable housing in good neighborhoods with suitable roommates is becoming more difficult than ever. According to the 2014-2015 Northeastern University Housing Report Card, the economy in the Greater Boston area
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Home prices are skyrocketing in South Boston, almost doubling in less than 15 years. What has been a boon for developers, though, has been cause for concern for long-time residents, who fear for the loss of the town as they once knew it. According to a report in South Boston
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In 2001, Brian O' Grady, the Director of the Council on Aging in Williamstown, Mass., was cleaning out a closet in the Senior Center when Hazel Burchick, one of the seniors in town, wondered out loud: 'Whatever happened to the old cane we used to give people?'
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Every day Boston receives hundreds of reports of abandoned bikes, overflowing trash, burnt out streetlights and potholes. On Tuesday, Mayor Martin J. Walsh launched an umbrella 311 system to better effectively receive and respond to citizen requests. Mayor Walsh announced the new system as "a way to promote more
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