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Fields Corner, a Vietnamese enclave, boasts locally owned businesses. But as development continues, rising costs threaten to displace residents. (Shelby Lum/Globe Staf)

Known for its diversity, Fields Corner now must make room for development

Residents have come to know Dorchester’s Fields Corner as a place where newcomers can find a home. From Vietnamese to Haitian Creole to Spanish to Portuguese, signs in the store windows and chatter on the street reflect a neighborhood like few others in Boston.
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A Vietnamese enclave faces growing pressure

As new developments spring up around Fields Corner, the same displacement challenges facing Vietnamese residents also face its business owners.

Creating small-scale solutions to a big housing crunch

Experiments in a different sort of affordable housing are cropping up in Fields Corner as local developers grapple with rising demand to live in a neighborhood where the median income is 50 percent lower than the city as a whole.

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