When Rabbi Yoni Fein, head of school at the Brauser Maimonides Academy in Hollywood, gets inquiries from prospective parents from outside the state, he asks them to make sure they can find a house before enrolling their children.

This Catch-22 of a simultaneous housing shortage and waitlists at area schools is no coincidence. For Hollywood may be one of the fastest growing Orthodox Jewish communities in America — if not the fastest.

“It’s very rare that a house comes up,” Brandt said of the housing market here. “The real shortage started in January, February and March this year. It’s just been insane.”

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