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paul mcmorrow

Massachusetts housing crisis continues

Housing crashed the economy, and four years of really terrible home sales have kept a recovery from fully taking hold. So any good news from the housing market should be welcome. But in most of Massachusetts, heating up the housing market just trades one headache for another. The state's chronic inability to keep up with housing demand meant that Massachusetts leapt straight from its last recession into a lost decade of slow job creation, stagnant population growth, and out of control housing costs. That cycle is about to repeat itself — unless cities and towns get serious about building housing

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