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  "thesis": "Sudbury\u2019s summer resale rebound and its public-housing announcements run on different clocks. The accumulated record shows listings tightening alongside weak March sales, then transaction flow recovering by July. It also shows why announced units need outcome checks: Lorraine Street\u2019s 40 supportive homes moved through more than two years of revised construction and occupancy milestones.",
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      "mechanism": "Low listing inflow can keep resale inventory tight even when demand softens, while financing, construction and operating stages delay the point when planned housing becomes usable supply.",
      "localExposure": "Sudbury resale participants and residents who depend on supportive housing, treated as separate segments.",
      "timeHorizon": "Through December 2026 for resale; project outcomes checked at occupancy",
      "counterEvidence": "Inventory above long-run norms with below-average sales would weaken the resale call; faster occupancy across a larger project cohort would weaken the delivery-lag concern.",
      "forecastImplication": "Track resale flow and public-project occupancy separately before claiming that announced supply has changed local conditions."
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      "archiveContribution": "The archive preserves the original 2023 construction schedule and later project-stage statement on one municipal page, alongside a separate March 2026 market-flow record. That dated sequence exposes delivery latency that the current occupancy announcement alone does not explain."
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        "additionalFinding": "The retained evidence shows two different clocks. March resale flow was constrained by the lowest new-listing count for that month in four decades, with 138 sales equal to 62% of 224 new listings. Lorraine Street\u2019s 40 supportive units followed a much slower delivery path: a 2023 assembly schedule was followed by an opening-soon update in January 2025, and the January 2026 operating update still reported 36 of 40 units occupied.",
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        "localConsequence": "Tight resale conditions and supportive-housing delivery delays can coexist because they serve different households and move through different pipelines. Announced units should be tracked to occupancy before being counted as relief.",
        "counterEvidence": "The Lorraine project is specialized transitional supportive housing and should not be used to explain resale prices. The March sales-to-new-listings ratio is a simple monthly flow calculation, not the board\u2019s seasonally adjusted market-balance measure.",
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