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Article: UNFAIR MARKET?
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- Seven Days
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- September 2, 2009
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Nothing Says "Unaffordable" like Burlington apartments
The house seemed to exchange stale cigarette smoke when the front door opened. We trudged up the dingy carpeted stairs, over the warped floors and through the grimy kitchen before finding the culprit: an ashtray on a screened-in porch, overflowing with squished cigarette butts. The box of Clorox disinfecting wipes next to it was no match for the stench of stale tobacco.
"How much is the rent?" we asked the young woman showing us the apartment.
"Twelve hundred a month," she said, "plus a month's security deposit."
That two-bedroom apartment, in a multifamily house on Buell Street near downtown Burlington, is typical of what Vermont ...