The Provincetown Independent’s reporters couldn’t find housing. So the Local Journalism Project bought a condo for them to rent.
Paying the rent on a reporter s salary isn t easy anywhere these days . But on the Outer Cape, it s almost impossible. Massachusetts has some of the highest housing costs in the country . The problem is exacerbated on Cape Cod s Outer Cape, a region that includes Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, and Eastham. In a community where the same one-bedroom apartment can be rented out for $2,500 per month
Paying the rent on a reporter s salary isn t easy anywhere these days . But on the Outer Cape, it s almost impossible. Massachusetts has some of the highest housing costs in the country . The problem is exacerbated on Cape Cod s Outer Cape, a region that includes Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, and Eastham. In a community where the same one-bedroom apartment can be rented out for $2,500 per month