In the past year, the advertised rents for Dorchester and Roxbury have shown a significant upward shift. Once again, here is a lesson in the dangers of using advertised rents as a yardstick of real rents. That long-term stability indicates the general pattern in these neighborhoods. These latest jumps in advertised rents reflect gentrification in small sections of Dorchester and Roxbury, with rental agents pushing newly renovated apartments in these small areas. The vast majority of Dorchester and Roxbury remains stable and still well below these advertised rent levels.
Gentrification is what needs to happen every generation or so to upgrade and maintain housing.
The Boston Globe invented it. Usually a single tenant is profiled and often the same tenant more than once. We are left to guess the tenant's income, whether the rent was low to start with, the size and location of the apartment. For general trends, the Globe lies, ignoring the facts printed in its own paper. America has the highest standard of living in the world.