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    Idea for fixing the housing shortage

    I feel like so many people I know or see online have a deep fear of market solutions to anything. So I think inclusionary zoning/community benefit/reviews reform and have a tiny consistency between old home owners and young renters. Anecdotally, I feel at least there's been an increasing amount...
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    MBTA Fare System (Charlie, AFC 2.0, Zone, Discounts)

    But isn't ridership not that different between last year and this year? It doesn't look like there's a 1.5x or 2x ridership increase from when I browse the transitmatters or first party T data visualizations. Where's all this revenue coming from?
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    Cambridge Multi-Family Zoning Reform

    Damn, is there a particular input that you think is making the most difference in our cost structure here?
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    Cambridge Multi-Family Zoning Reform

    Here's another incomplete thought: These 5/1s are only luxury because there's so little else on the market to compete with it. If we could saturate the market with 5/1s I feel like developers would no longer be able to differentiate purely on the newness of their buildings and have to resort to...
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    MBTA "Transformation" (Green Line, Red Line, & Orange Line Transformation Projects)

    I've seen type 9s on the C branch that had the same sign but express to coolidge corner.
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    In short, it don't look good lmao
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    Multi-Family Zoning Requirements for MBTA Communities

    I don't see why we should care if the demand is from people or people who think they can rent those units. If they want to put their own money on the line and lose their shirt, who are we to stop them? With that logic, the United States would have strangled our tech sector in the dot com boom...
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    Allston-Brighton Infill and Small Developments

    35-43 Braintree Street
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    MBTA Fare System (Charlie, AFC 2.0, Zone, Discounts)

    From an interview with Eng in the globe: The other part you mentioned about the contactless payment: That is coming. I’ve been testing that. It’s not as far away as people think. It will be here this year. And the exact thing, as you said, you don’t need an account, you don’t need to buy a...
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    Multi-Family Zoning Requirements for MBTA Communities

    The little economist in me would start dancing if this happened, too bad even the economic conservatives around here support government meddling in real estate markets. Honestly, this is one of those things where I feel needs to be kept as far away as possible from local control. Local control...
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    Reserved Channel Development | 300 West First Street | South Boston

    Between existing regulatory processes and market conditions, I don't think we need any additional barriers to development for the aesthetic sensibilities of people who aren't party to these transactions.
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    West Cambridge / Alewife Area Infill & Small Developments

    ngl for someone who's recently started reading an architecture forum, I have strangely few opinions about aesthetics lmao. I'd take everything short of communist block housing (and maybe even that) if it meant enough units to improve market conditions for affordability 🤡
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    Allston-Brighton Infill and Small Developments

    Looks like they're finally doing something about city sports lmao

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