Housing and Hostilities

Massachusetts needs more affordable housing. So why is a developer with plans to build low-income apartments being called an "extortionist, blackmailer, and worse" by the residents?

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January 30, 2001, 11:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Those seem like harsh words for someone proposing to build low-income apartments in this community, which has one of the lowest percentages of affordable housing in the state. But residents contend Veo is only threatening to build the apartment complex in order to scare the town into approving what he really wants - a zoning change..."

Thanks to Joshuah Mello

FULL STORY: Housing and Hostilities

Sunday, January 28, 2001 in The Boston Globe

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