From Dorchester to Roxbury and into Allston, rats continue to multiply with faulty trash storage and absentee landlords fueling the fire.
plaguing neighborhoods throughout Boston.
City councilors have spent years trying to address that very issue, notching a win to close out 2024. The legislature gave the green light to a rise in code enforcement fines from a max of $300 to $2,000. Citywide data seems to back that up. Between 2020 and 2024 over 165,000 improper trash storage violations were recorded with over 45,000 citations for overfilled dumpsters.
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