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Article: SUBSTANDARD, ILLEGAL ROOMING HOUSES SEEN AS GROWING
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 6, 1989
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For 40 years, David Graves has lived in a warehouse near
North Station where tenants complain of rat infestation, exposed
wires, cracked windows, insufficient heat and ceilings with holes
so large that rooms are flooded with water when it rains.
Graves, 85, is among 27 persons living in an unregistered
commercial building at 121 Merrimac St., where city inspectors have
found more than 100 code violations and advocates have reported
that rents are double the rates set by the Boston Rent Equity Board.
There are no figures available on the number of properties in
the city operating illegally as rooming houses, or the number of
people, like Graves, who are forced to live in substandard ...