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"Most of your post is tilting at windmills so we'll have to agree to disagree." Definitely. But where I quoted you and responded in detail, you ranted, insulted, and misunderstood. I appreciate that your response this time is slightly less silly, but you should work on your people skills, or...

You've consistently misread the people disagreeing with you and you continually deploy strawmen yourself. You wrote: "Yes, if your take is that people should be able to live in the same place they did decades ago without taking into considering the "fact" that times change." But my whole...

You're talking about "logic" and "reality" but I don't think you understand either of them. There's no law guaranteeing anyone a place to live (not even ownership trumps eminent domain), but there's no law guaranteeing developers and companies the uncontested right build what they want either...

More housing. Well, duh. But that's only half the problem. Yes, there should be a lot more housing. No, people shouldn't accepts tens of thousands of well-moneyed workers moving into their city just because market fetishists think the government has no business preventing hardship and...

If that estimate is even half right HQ2 will be a disaster for hundreds of thousands of people here.

The way to do option 3 is to spread it out over the whole area, putting affordable housing in virtually every development with a substantial number of units. We'd need a lot more than the current minimum, too. To offset the cost, the development process should be streamlined, and absentee owners...

Yeah but his point - and there was a point - was that the analogy wasn't clarifying because the terms used weren't properly understood by the people using them. Don't want to speak for someone else, but I'd say he was also getting at another point: it's not only an inaccurate analogy, but a...

"Again you are lacking all basic class analysis." Edit: Also, I co-sign everything the 'slaw has said.

Is this a double reference to Frankenstein and The Warriors?

Re: General Electric HQ | 244-284 A Street | Fort Point Is that a bad render (the canvas from the site hanging on the fence), or are they re-cladding the side with faux-brick?

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District I happen to like some of those 70's buildings, and I think a lot of others do, too.

Yes, this is the point I was making. I wrote that we're "already starved for housing," not "Amazon is going to bring on a housing crisis." We're already in a housing crisis and that should be our priority--and not that the word of a politician should mean anything, but that's what the mayor...

I find the desire to win this competition baffling. Why would we want to massively increase the number of upper-middle class and rich residents in an area that's already starved for housing?

I concur.

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District I think it makes sense if you read the conversation in sequence. It was a discussion about what approach to take: some people proposed government subsidizing housing construction and rents, then you countered with a transit-oriented approach. I...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District I can see why you're confused, and to remedy that I suggest you pay attention next time, and if you're confused and you don't understand what someone is saying, then maybe you could communicate with less attitude, and without ascribing "utopia"...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Agreed. Aside from the moral implications of just allowing market forces to push everyone further away (not just from their jobs but their friends, their family, and vital services, as Data points out), funneling the money into transit is a very...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Appreciate all these comments of yours. I think this here is a key point: there really is no market solution for people who don't make a decent amount of money. Sane, modern urban zoning and government-subsidized housing and rent (spread around new...

No feelings here at all, just cold, hard rationality.