Stories Related to Housing Crisis Makes Traffic Worse In Massachusetts

(Editor’s Note: This is part of a monthly series focused on housing challenges in Massachusetts.)Sarah MacDonald works in Cambridge, but she can’t afford to live there.Instead, she commutes from Weymouth, and because public transportation is inconvenient to her schedule, she drives each day.“I drive into the city, park at a meter and move it every two hours because parking also isn’t affordable,” she wrote in an email.

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