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Some neighborhoods fought the projects — theirs and others — likening them to early 1900 tenements. Judgments abounded: one online magazine referred to them as “hipster hovels,” while others likened their size to prison cells, parking stalls and carports.

None of it stopped people from moving in.

“It’s satisfying,” says Carr, “and we realize we’re meeting a big, pent-up demand.”



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