The ground beneath some of Boston’s priciest homes is literally rotting away

An antiquated technique that generations of Bostonians used to add thousands of buildable acres to their city is coming back to haunt their city’s current residents. The ground beneath some homes is literally rotting away and it isn’t cheap to fix, according to the Wall Street Journal. Around 5,000 acres of Boston is built atop soil and gravel landfill that was once Massachusetts Bay. That land isn’t solid enough to build foundations on, so up

source https://therealdeal.com/2020/03/07/3815729/