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STAFFdeath lawsuit against theWith land- federalline up trustat forum fund to fight chronic overcrowding ment by amending the city’s add permanence to the mayor’s to get in to them and assess lord and a real estate company and protect the health and safe- University Accountability Ordi- push toThe collect Boston student City address Councilconditions on Wednesday in a much more voted effi- onto Wednesdayrequire colleges in Suffolkrunning Supe-with a presence dry,By Joshua Mass. in Bos Miller- fears ty of the thousands of students nance, which requires colleges data by setting it into law. cient manner.” rior Court that accuses them of GLOBE STAFF living in the city. to provide a breakdown of the tonThe to city provide has already a list started of off-campusThe number addresses of undergradu- whererenting students an illegal are residing, apartmentfor $5b in a inUnderstep planned intended attack from guberna- work The measure was approved number of students living in toto analyze fight the chronic addresses provid-overcrowdingate and graduateand protect students the liv- healthwith insufficientand safety exitsof the and thousands a torial rivals of atstudents a forum Wednes- three months after a Boston each ZIP code. ed this summer by 26 universi- ing off campus in Boston faulty fire-alarm system. dayBy night,Noah Attorney Bierman General Globe Spotlight Team investiga- Now, the institutions will ties,living including in the Boston city. College jumped by 36 percent, to more “The tragic events on Lin- MarthaGLOBE Coakley STAFF defended her tion, “Shadow Campus,” re- need to include the address and and NortheasternThe measure University, was to approvedthan 45,000, three between months2006 and afterden a Boston Street in myGlobe district SpotlightWASHINGTON last decision Team — investiga to Nearly allow $5 Partners-billion of pro- vealed that illegal, overcrowded unit number for student apart- determine which apartments last year, according to reports year just highlighted theposed prob- road,HealthCare transit, and bicyclingto acquire improvements South apartments with hazardous ments, as well as whether the maytion, be overcrowded.“Shadow Campus,” filedrevealed with the that city illegal, clerk by pri-overcrowdedlems that we apartments have withacross over- with MassachusettsShore hazardous Hospital are con at and risk- Hallmark because Con- conditions riddle the city’s uni- individual is an undergraduate ditions“Our early riddle analysis the identi- city’s universityvate universities neighborhoods, with a Boston crowdingincluding and a landlordslarge gressnumber that has failedHealth in toviolation actinstead at a time ofof filing whena a the law- nation’s versity neighborhoods, includ- or graduate student, by Nov. 15 fied approximately 2,000 stu- presence and data that three don’t take care of theirmain proper- sourcesuit ofhighway to stop the funding merger. verges on insol- ing a large number in violation each fall, and within 45 days of dentszoning living rule in housing that prohibits that is public more colleges than providedfour full-time the ty,” undergraduates City Councilor Mark vency.from Ciom- sharingShe saida house the agreement or — of a zoning rule that prohibits the beginning of each semester ‘atrisk’apartment. for overcrowding,” Globe. Many of the additional mo, who cosponsoredState the politicalwhich leaders still must call be a approved pair of approach- by more than four full-time under- or quarter. Quirk said. “As our investiga- students are pouring into amendment with Zakim,ing transportationsaid a judge — deadlines would help — one “put to anet refill the graduates from sharing a house It is an anonymous report tion intoAfter this continues, a fire at the an ac- off-campusneighborhoods apartment such as Mission in Allstonat the hearinglast year on Tuesday.killedhighway 22-year-old “It trustover fund the by bignessBinland this summer of Partners” and another to renew the national transportation program — or apartment. and no student names will be tualLee, number a Boston will likely University be less.” Hill,student, Fenway, community and Brighton. activistsalso highlights called on the colleges overabun- in Bostonand reduce to therelease rise of health After a fire at an off-campus included. Valerie K. Frias, associate di- The “Shadow Campus” se- dance of students in oura “looming neigh- crisis.”care costs. apartment in Allston last year “Knowing the specific ad- rectorthe addresses of the Allston of Brighton their off-campusries found widespreadstudents healthto enableborhoods.” the city to build aAt database stake is $1“It billion wouldthat acould immediately year in be federal level funding for Massachusetts transportation projects, ac- killed 22-year-old Binland Lee, dresses, including the unit Communityused to detect Development dangerous, Cor- and overcrowded safety issues at apartments, living conditions. the playing field for competi- a Boston University student, number, is really going to give poration, who testified at a City ranging from the kind of deadly Jenn Abelson can be reachedcounting at fortors, about compared half the to needed what the money, situ- with community activists called on the city the tools to monitor the CouncilMost hearing universities on Tuesday resistedperil that until claimed June, Lee towhen more [email protected] Martin J. .Walsh Followthe state her met covering ationwith is thecollege now,” other she half, said. for several years’ worth of projects. colleges in Boston to release the overcrowding,” Zakim said. andleaders has been and pushing they forlargely the agreedordinary hazards.to disclose A Globe the anal- addressees.on Twitter @jennabelson City Councilor. JoshThe Zakim proposed then agreement The dozenswould of projects impose potentially some price affected con- are proposed formalizing the arrangement by amending the city’s Universitylarge and Accountability smalltrols and — ranging work to Or limit in cost- the from huge a few hundred thousand dollars to a few hundred mil- dinance, which requires colleges to provide a breakdown of the number of studentscompany’s bargainingliving in power. Treasurer Steve Grossman,FUNDS, Page A16 each ZIP code. one of Coakley’s two Democrat- Boston ic opponents in the Sept. 9 pri- Now, the institutions will need to include the address and unit numbermary, for student said the decision apart- would ments, as well as whether the individual is an undergraduate or graduate student,ultimately by cost Nov. businesses 15 and consumers tens of millions of unveils each fall, and within 45 days of the beginning of each semester or quarter. dollars more, citing the state’s It is an anonymous report and no student names will be included. Health Policy Commission. “The deal that Martha Coak- Ebola “Knowing the specific addresses, including the unit number, is really goingley has to presented give the to the judge is city the tools to monitor the overcrowding,” Zakim said. “Often these overcrowdedthe wrong apartments deal at the wrong time, which is going to cost too have unsafe, unsanitary conditions and higher rents. When you cram so manymuch students money,” he into said. strategy an apartment, few families can compete with that. It has a really troubling impactEvan