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Why some Massachusetts families spend years on subsidized housing waitlists

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Downtown Boston, seen from East Boston's Orient Heights. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Downtown Boston, seen from East Boston's Orient Heights. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Section 8 and other subsidized housing programs are notoriously tricky to navigate. In Massachusetts, where housing of all kinds is extraordinarily scarce, getting off a waitlist and into a home feels almost impossible for some families.

We talk with the Boston Globe's Diti Kohli.

This segment aired on August 3, 2023.

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