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Uh, I think Houston and the surrounding area started reconsidering some of those policies after Harvey. (Suburban sprawl was blamed as a contributor to the severity of the flooding) Bad example? There is so such thing as less zoning laws and regulation without removing them completely.

No,you build more housing and run to put out the next fires of transit and infrastructure. We don't have a choice at this point, this is what happens when a city decays for decades and is suddenly needed again. So let's stop pussyfooting around it and start diving in NOW. No more damn studies on...

So I guess we're back at square one then? How do we convince NIMBYs that current policies are causing people to suffer? Especially the ones who own property and are oblivious to Renter's woes?

Now it seems like it would be complicated to pull off and I hope there's a few lawyers here to weigh in on the feasibility: First part: create a non-profit to develop and hold residential assets. Complicated second part: Create an investment vehicle that can finance residential projects...

Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End I think the moral of the story here is, if that building currently provides low cost and/or subsidized housing, any redevelopment needs to replace that housing on site one for one. If that requires incentives such as...

Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End Urban planning is another key issue for us which is why I'm hoping a mod comes along and snips this tangent into its own thread about what really causes "gentrification" and how to prevent local communities from...

Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End So at this point I'm just counting on mods to split this off into a separate thread because it ought to be discussed: You just accidentally argued FOR racially segregating neighborhoods. The creation of impoverished...

Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End Ok so I hate to contribute to the derailment here, but for someone who hangs out here you should know by now whats creating the housing crisis. "Gentrification" might be what prices people out of a neighborhood...

Yeah, their statement seemed extremely out of touch with the problems facing college students these days.

Re: Massport Parcel A2 | Seaport I guess it's efficient use of land

Is there going to be more residential beyond parcel I?

Dude, I'm so confused about your views right now. And ffs if you don't like cnn we have necn in New England.

Yeah, these complaints are only valid when the new units are being marketed as "luxury housing". Being cheap on appearances is perfectly fine when the objective is to create affordable housing for middle to lower income people.

If we built enough housing i'm pretty sure it would be over 800,000 by 2030. The housing shortage itself is suppressing demand.

Re: Suffolk Downs Redevelopment To be fair I think Bezos himself is ideologically libertarian (not conspiracy theorist right winger) but the employees are so liberal they make Boston residents look conservative.

Apparently you're the world's only anhydrous man. Also, 30 ft drop? No fall protection?

Re: Radius Apartments (née The Icon née Western Av Residence) | 530 Western Av | Brig I don't know why but it irks me that there is only 1 radius here and the rest of the project is just a bunch of 90 degree angles.

I recently wandered into the r/Boston subreddit. It seems that's where all the Boston Area structural engineers hang out. I just saw a *really* detailed analysis of a picture of ugly decaying concrete at a red line station.

Yeah, this topic has come up a couple of times, and this has been determined to be the best option. Also I'm not sure how the price compares currently due to the implementation of steel tariffs.

If you like to study statistics on this subject as I do, you would find that Boston is still not building nearly enough housing for the jobs being created. That still is the root issue to the problem and why I think it's incredibly stupid to give incentives to business to "create jobs" unless...