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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...

I guess one thing I'm thinking about is how without traffic, sullivan square is only 2 minutes driving distance. If a round trip takes 6 minutes on the exclusive busway, 30 second headways would need a dozen busses to generate 12,000 trips per hour. Stations for this capacity will have to be a...

Isn't there already a general outline with the previous studies for SLX running through the area to Sullivan Square? https://www.mbta.com/news/2024-03-08/mbta-and-massdot-recommend-extending-silver-line-3-chelsea-orange-lines-sullivan

I've been writing in comments or some of the larger proposals, but that's a good point on how it might be more impactful to send something in on these small projects. 🫡 I'm also curious where exactly you are leaving the comments, is it just on the (now) planning department website? Is that the...

Well 1) I'm never against the housing agenda but I don't think this is a very good argument lol. It would take 700,000 people moving here to gain 1 blue electoral vote. Alternatively if maybe 100,000 blue voters each move to Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan instead, you might...

So like, if the tracks are in much better shape on the orange line, what are the odds of increasing the operating speed sometime in the next say 5 years?

Can't wait for this project to get moving, it'll be so nice to have something other than the 5-over-1s in this area

Yeah, I don't think I've ever found this type of building particularly inspiring either to be fair to mr architecture critic. And yeah, I agree worrying about this stuff will become much more valid once the market comes a lot closer to an efficient quantity of housing.

ngl, I'm with you on this one, I like the vibe

Man, I think the aesthetic is nice, but 4 stories tall would have looked so much better in this format

Man, I know people like this are arguing in bad faith but I'm taking the bait lol. One, trying to weaponize liberal sentimentality with this virtue nonsense. And two, perpetuating this garbage that we are to live by charity alone and that it is from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or...