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Sabrina Maddeaux: Living in tool sheds won’t solve housing crisis

Great Depression Era “Hooverville” USA

Outside Cambridge city hall sits a small, 110-square-foot wooden shack meant to demonstrate how the city can house its rapidly increasing population. It contains no toilet and, while it is insulated, no heating system. The city doesn’t intend to use these shanties to charitably house the homeless, but promote them as solutions for paying tenants.

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