Affordable housing advocates in Boston are calling on the city's colleges to build more on campus housing, freeing up housing for low-income residents.
"Concerned about gentrification and housing shortages, students, community activists, and city councilors staged a 4-mile walk across Boston yesterday to call attention to the city's lack of affordable housing. A group of Boston University students sponsored the walk, calling on local colleges to help solve the city's crunch by building more on-campus housing. In recent years, neighborhoods like Mission Hill have seen an influx of students from schools like Northeastern, Wentworth Institute, and Simmons College who say they've been priced out by rising rents. The arrival of students has forced some residents to retreat to other neighborhoods after landlords raised their rents." Of the 135,000 thousand students in Boston, only 30,000 are housed in university housing.
Thanks to Christian Peralta
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