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Well first, New York is hardly a paragon of affordable housing. While I am willing to have a rational consideration of regulations for reasons of safety or whatever, I think it is a terrible idea for government to dictate what citizens can do with the property they own. At the end of the day...

Why not? Because it doesn't satisfy an architectural connoisseur's aesthetic preferences? Real people who live in these buildings love them, look at the premium they're willing to pay for one over a room in a mid century brick building. Rationalizing housing prices through mass production are...

I've never been a believer in this 'build it once' philosophy of housing stock. If we become comfortable with the idea that we can continually tear down and rebuild we can edge closer to a healthier market like in Japan. Being unreasonably attached to individual structures is part of what got us...

Thanks for the article, I think it puts into a single cogent piece a lot of arguments I've had with people over the last few years. Everyone in these states should be having a sputnik moment over the fact that deep red states are doing much much better than we are on housing and green energy. I...

I'm often filled with a sense of envy/bewilderment we do so much worse than Texas and many red states in affordable housing and renewable energy. I wish we were able to think big and just build the way they do but alas

Where in the dev cycle is this exactly, is there a chance to push for C/D through one of the public comment systems and have any small influence at all.

Kinda makes you think what all these new lab/office/residential complexes going up would look like if developers could propose the maximally profitable balance regardless of what's likely to get approved

I wanted to look up how much $100m would be relative to worker pay, and damn somehow I didn't know MGH was this big lol. $10b per year just on worker salaries

Never mind that the extent of this problem is highly correlated to local policies, and that municipalities that allow market actors to run freely have much more affordable housing. If this was purely an economic problem where housing is only held back by the financing, demolition and...

1035 Commonwealth Ave

I've had it happen before, clear your cache/history and it should be back to normal

It's not really in the article, but I can't help thinking about what a national politician might see when they think about maximizing impact. If we are up against a project in Arizona, which 1) is electorally significant, 2) builds housing like there's no tomorrow, and 3) has significantly...

they're sabotaging us lol, this way communities can more easily say 'project X doesn't fit in', 'it changes the local character too much' /s

Do you know if this is the total cost for the project? Or is a project like this expected to take multiple loans. At around 230k per unit, it sounds substantially lower than the Everett greystar project, even though they had the benefit of building like 2000 units at once.

I don't know that its necessarily naive, ultimate incidence can fall on either side of the transaction depending on the demand and supply characteristics right. In the medium term I imagine that housing supply is relatively inelastic because renters can relocate, so econ101 logic might predict...