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Alex Subra

‘Everyone is just in scramble mode’

By Mike DeSocio

This is part of a story about the shortage of apartments and other rentals in Saranac Lake and other Adirondack communities.

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‘It’s caused the rental crisis to skyrocket’

By Mike DeSocio

This is part of a story about the shortage of apartments and other rentals in Saranac Lake and other Adirondack communities.

Rebecca Ciraulo

‘A snowball of moving once a year’

By Mike DeSocio

This is part of a story about the shortage of apartments and other rentals in Saranac Lake and other Adirondack communities

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As real estate boom continues, a shortage of inventory remains

By Janet Reynolds

In August, the median price increased 40.5% to $214,900 in the northern region.

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Housing crunch limits Adirondack economy

By Adirondack Explorer

The good news is that overall unemployment is low, meaning that a lot of park residents have jobs. The bad news is that economic growth is almost impossible without additional workers to perform the work.

A push for clustering

By Explorer archives

Environmentalists lobby for stricter development controls in wake of subdivision of Woodworth Lake property. By Phil Brown Environmentalists say the approval of a housing development at a former Boy Scouts camp underscores the need for tighter regulation of privately owned backcountry lands in the Adirondacks. All four of the Adirondack Park’s major environmental groups opposed…

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