Diverse Homes, Diverse Prices
The neighborhood houses a little less than one-tenth of the city's population, the fifth highest count of the city's 13 neighborhoods as designated by the CPD.
According to census data analyzed by the city's Community Development Department, housing turnover decreased from 1980 to 1990, meaning the neighborhood is becoming more stable.
Housing costs are increasing in Cambridgeport, as they are throughout the city.
"It creates a paradox for people who live here who couldn't afford to buy their homes now," Goodwin says.
Despite rising rents and increasing price tags on homes, Malenfant calls Cambridgeport one of the city's "most welcoming neighborhoods" as far as city-designated affordable housing.
The Cambridge Housing Authority runs two apartment buildings that provide nearly 400 apartments, nearly half the neighborhood's affordable housing units, mostly to elderly tenants.
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