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HomeVideoHow 'green gentrification' is pricing out longtime East Boston residents

How ‘green gentrification’ is pricing out longtime East Boston residents

The city of Boston faces two enormous problems: Sea level rise in its harbor that is getting worse with climate change and a dearth of affordable housing, pricing out many longtime residents. Solutions to one of the problems may compound the challenge of solving the other, a phenomenon researchers have called this “green gentrification.” Paul Solman reports.

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