A New Report Shows Income Segregation Growing In Boston

WBZ NewsRadio’s Chris Fama reports.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
As far as he's concerned, ain't nothing changed in Boston
in the sixty plus years he's lived here.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
When it comes to personal wealth.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
You don't rich get rich or poor get poor.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Which, according to a new study, is only widen the
gap in the city between which neighborhoods those with money
and those with less decide to settle down in and
call home, in large part.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Because the cost is insane.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
No matter what, more than a million dollars now for
the median sales price of a home, says the Greater
Boston Association of Realtors.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
So how does this Dorchester resident afford his crib.

Speaker 5 (00:30):
I rant the second room to a guy? And there's
no way.

Speaker 6 (00:32):
I bet you there's like two hundred and three hundred
mile radius that he wouldn't be able to pay that much.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Chris Fama, WBZ, Boston's news radio