Idea for fixing the housing shortage

KCasiglio said:
In my experience people are, not unreasonably, very likely to defer to their local fire department over their local planning department on fire safety. As practitioners and advocates it should be a priority for us to engage and bring along first responders because they are and, quite frankly, almost certainly always will be a group with higher public trust than we are. We're not going to win a public debate if the fire department is arguing against us, even if the data backs us up.

EDIT: Basically, we can't expect everyone to be familiar with building code practice in other parts of the world.
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Firefighters are almost universally right wing cranks at this point and their opinions on architecture and urban planning must be discarded.
 
Are there any programs out right now that have incentives to redevelop underutilized suburban office parks? Every time I drive around the greater Boston area i see hundreds of these office parks sitting empty...
 
beck4537 said:
Are there any programs out right now that have incentives to redevelop underutilized suburban office parks? Every time I drive around the greater Boston area i see hundreds of these office parks sitting empty...
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Cheaper to knock them down and start over.
 
Costco apartment building now coming to houston too, id love to see one of these come to boston. 400 units, 184 low income, plus a grocery wholesale store at ground floor. Thats baller. Put it next to a commuter rail stop and it would not only benefit the people who live there but other people who live along that line could shop there too.

 
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