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Housing Revolution - Bloomberg Markets
I met and photographed three people for the story: Ben Finnegan, a developer with multiple ongoing projects in Lexington, where he lives, including one near the Battle Green. At that site, he moved the historic house which had been set further back off the street, so it now sits along the street in line with other historic homes in the neighborhood. The land towards the back of the lot, where the house used to be, is now an active construction zone as he builds condominiums to increase available housing. Dawn McKenna, who is currently running for Lexington Select Board, got engaged near a monument on Battle Green and lives with her husband in an historic home on the Green, where they raised their two children, now adults. She opposes the changes to the zoning laws in their current form, attached to a vision of what Lexington used to be. Salvador Jaramillo, a son of Korean and Mexican immigrants and recent Harvard graduate, had been the youngest member of Lexington's Town Meeting. Now he works for the state's Attorney General's office, living in Cambridge, MA, after being priced out of his home town of Lexington.
You can read the full story on Bloomberg Markets here.
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