BOS people: friend in need of housing

[usernamenumber]

Signal boosting for a friend. She's in what sounds like a really crappy situation with a negligent and abusive landlord, so she's in the market for a place to rent in the Boston area. Details here...

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/hou/3504587248.html

Edit: Just noticed the "no roommates" bit in her ad, which might complicate things, fyi for those renting rooms.

Comments

[bronzite.livejournal.com]

*whistle*

Whoo.... Good luck with that search. I think there's going to have to be bending on at least a few of those points to find housing in the next 12 days.

[tiurin.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering whether any such place even exists. And why the heck would she be looking for a 2-bdr if she refuses to have a roommate? For that kind of money, I doubt she'd find anything bigger than a studio if she needs to live really close to the T.

Why are there different rent requirements for different cities?

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but it's been suggested that it could be due to being on some kind of housing assistance program. I don't know that she is, but it could be why (I'm told). Don't want to pry at her about it if that's the case.

[joev.livejournal.com]

Dunno if there's a better way to get at this, but I just saw this site go by:
http://www.richblockspoorblocks.com/
...and I'd expect that lower median rent would correlate with lower median intent. Probably not very linearly because people may end up living at higher occupancy rates rather than paying less rent. I hope this isn't me showing insensitivity about a class issue, but I just thought I'd mention it as a possible input for a tricky housing search. I really wanted to find rent by census tract, but even though it seems like that should be possible, nobody seems to have made it happen yet. The reason I think it should be possible is that it was done for the Bay Area:
http://kwelia.tumblr.com/post/37609046746/interactive-bay-area-rental-price-heatmap-by-census