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br4dless t1_j58y23a wrote

I’m a little confused about what’s illegal… building new triple deckers?

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masshole4life t1_j597sz9 wrote

correct

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br4dless t1_j5b84r6 wrote

And what is the law that prevents them from being built? I’ve never heard this before and lived in the city for about 30 years

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masshole4life t1_j5bagcw wrote

the wording is something to the effect of banning "any wooden tenement in which cooking will be done above the second floor".

for more info look up Prescot Farnsworth Hall and his "immigration restriction league". the short version is that 3 deckers represented upward mobility for "undesirables", though the record is made to appear that it was due to fire hazards and "ugliness".

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