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...life on $7-per-hour in the preposterously expensive Boston metro region does present certain standard challenges. Skyrocketing rents force a mean choice for Harvard's janitors, dining workers and security guards: Work literally 85 hours a week to bring home the money needed to pay the $1,100 one-bedroom rents that prevail in the few low-income neighborhoods left in Boston and Cambridge, or commute in from far-away postindustrial towns like Lowell and Worcester where a 65-hour work week is sufficient to provide life's basic necessities. Either option leaves precious little time for anything...
...Building one is no cakewalk, however. Sites are difficult to acquire. Prospective residents must spend years in long meetings with architects, bureaucrats and neighborhood groups. They must be willing to put up thousands in advance for units that cost slightly more than mainstream condos. (One-bedroom Southside flats went for $87,000, though the city provided generous loans to the cash poor. Homeowners' dues range from $100 to $150 a month.) And the endless meetings continue after everyone moves in. Instead of delegating to a board of directors or voting, Southside residents, like most cohousers, make every decision by consensus...
Their new album is a collection of 12 songs, each written by Jones and Hayes. Recorded in San Francisco and New York (as opposed to the one-bedroom setup in rural Oz of their first album), Affirmation leans towards slow tunes, which show off the clever, real-life related lyrics and dynamic vocal harmony of the duo. The instrumental work is awesome as well, especially where the beat picks up in some of the faster dance songs...
...once bought a three-bedroom house with a 30-year mortgage--and paid it off in six years. He also once owned a pair of shiny Lincoln Continentals. But he gave up those things 23 years ago when he and his wife were divorced. Today he lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Highland Park, a gritty Detroit suburb. He drives a red 1985 Ford Escort that runs just fine, thank you--though neighborhood thieves have forced him to do without hubcaps...
...There is no way I could live in Cambridge. A one-bedroom apartment would cost more than 50 percent of my take-home pay," says M. Steve Fritz, a Fogg Museum central station monitor who makes $11.85 an hour...