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Globe Editorial

Call the bluff on housing

May 9, 2007

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PROPOSALS to build new housing developments in Massachusetts are often met by flocks of boo birds who complain that the additional property taxes could never offset the increased cost for services, especially for schools and public safety. But a new report from the UMass Donahue Institute argues that new housing is hardly the drain on budgets that city and town ... (Full article: 461 words)

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