Boson City Council Votes to Re-Name Slumtown as The Seaport on the Harbor

Boson Massachusetts tired old fishing district informally known as 'Slumtown' because of the run down look of the neighborhood where many of the houses date back to the mid 1850's when the docks hosted whaling vessels. The area, as with most of the Eastern Massachusetts area, has seen a rise in the price of homes as the US dollar buys less and less property.  It now takes a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a house almost anywhere in the greater metro area. 


People from around the country, around the world, to work in Massachusetts even if the native population is not increasing.  The resulting influx of  people who work somewhere in Eastern Massachusetts and may be priced out of the most desirable areas. 



So, once downtrodden neighborhoods begin to see new people moving in.  This has been true of Boson since the beginning of the town in 1630.  Some of the low income residents of the former Slumtown are moving to the nearby Poorchester. 

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