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Speaker 1: When I pulled up to what used to be a

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Speaker 1: place that smelled like sugar and cranked out cookies on

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Speaker 1: Broadway in Summerville, I found broken windows and an abandoned

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Speaker 1: car out front.

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Speaker 2: So this is the old famous Patsy's Pastry site which

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Speaker 2: has been abandoned for about twelve years now.

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Speaker 1: Summerville Ward One City counselor Matt McLoughlin met me there

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Speaker 1: to talk about the next steps for this place and

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Speaker 1: the two buildings next door now that it's being turned

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Speaker 1: into affordable housing very early, and.

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Speaker 2: There's a bunch of financing that has to get into place,

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Speaker 2: but this area is zoned for at least five stories

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Speaker 2: of housing.

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Speaker 1: Gloughlin says this area, and specifically Broadway, has a big

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Speaker 1: problem with abandoned buildings, and that in times like this,

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Speaker 1: he's happy to see movement on a project like this.

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Speaker 2: We're an affordable housing crisis, and that's been my number

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Speaker 2: one issue for many years. People are finally coming around

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Speaker 2: to seeing that this is a national crisis.

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Speaker 1: In Summerville. I'm a freedman. W b Z, Boston's news

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