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More housing units were created in 2017 than in the previous year, according to the recently released Rent Guidelines Board annual housing supply report. There was an 11 percent increase in the number of apartments created, but the vacancy rate is still very low, and 11.5 percent of housing is considered “overcrowded,” meaning there’s more than one person per room. The city’s housing market, per the report, remains “very tight.”