Housing and Hostilities
30 January 2001 - 11:00am
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?
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..."
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The Boston Globe, January 28, 2001
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