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Speaker 1: The cost of living in Boston can feel suffocating if

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Speaker 1: you're a renter. Just take it from Annie.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of disheartening because I'm so inspired by the

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Speaker 2: city of Boston, so I want to be a part

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Speaker 2: of it, and the financial atmosphere kind of makes me

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Speaker 2: feel less included.

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Speaker 1: She's here with her mom, who used to rent an

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Speaker 1: apartment in Alston with five people for eleven hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 3: I've looked it up. It's twite more than twice that.

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Speaker 3: It's like three times that, and it's like, oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: But hope could be on the horizon for renters in

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Speaker 1: the city. A new Bloomberg report finds that the average

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Speaker 1: rent in Boston has dropped for the first time since

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. The average rent is still just over

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Speaker 1: three thousand dollars, but any drop is good news for

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Speaker 1: these renters.

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Speaker 2: That does give me hope. I'd be interested to see

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Speaker 2: if it affects me eventually.

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Speaker 4: I'm about to graduate this May, so that would actually

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Speaker 4: be pretty nice if the rent did go down. So

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Speaker 4: I guess we're gonna have to see.

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Speaker 1: From Austin Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's news radio