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In reference to the last paragraph in the article on the deal he’d make to help renters: “…in return for which we will support the kind of permitting reform that in two years allows us to get in place the housing stock that we need to bring rents under control.” So as far as the govs plan goes...

I agree, tho it's interesting to hear how people on Reddit talk about the Somerville, Cambridge, etc. of 20-40 years ago. There are a ton of people who just flat out would trade everything for it to be 1996 again. They don't think the last 30 years have made us happier (even if we are much...

The economist they just interviewed in WGBH was saying that it would take two years of building like crazy to bring rents down. To me that seems like an impossible timeline. If your only goal was to fix affordability, find new mayors and legislators for Boston, Somerville Quincy, Chelsea...

Agreed but--existing owners have profited massively over the last 20 years and renters have paid for all of it. We should all be paying the price for it. Maybe it's time that we all go down together.

Yea it seems crazy... I think a lot of holders of office/lab space would do an incredible amount of backflips for a tenant

To be fair some of us hadn’t been born

Those photos are awesome, I love that it's actually easier to do this than to get architects/planners to allow a brick building with nice big windows like this.

I mean the experience that we're trying to preserve in Matthews is A) whatever historic aspect it had, so that's intangible but B) the intimacy of the arena, and when colleges enrich themselves at any cost as much as NEU has, and paid for as good a hockey team as they have, they don't want to...

Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe the models Apple uses (at least for non-important buildings) are made by volunteers on open street map

There is an argument that NEU let it decay on purpose cause they wanted a new arena. Whether that's true who knows, but it's not exactly an institution known for their scruples.

Idk, is traffic even real? I grew up in Dover and I’m there all the time. It’s gotten significantly more denser with that typology you describe. People complain about the traffic but I’ve literally never had an issue. The population density or politics don’t support transit but you can...

Why aren't any of those guys in jail yet?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9y030r37o Renders straight out of AB dreams… think of the smokestacks!

Nonprofits are privatization. No way they should just be handed money. Huge political weakness for progressives

Agreed, though somehow I doubt that Five Car Flynn is thinking of wheelchair and bike users impacted by the storm... it's most definitely people on FB who can't park.

Just car brained nonsense

Accidents happen all the time and recklessness can certainly be a part. Take me for example, granted I'm a moron but--I was crossing Causeway St outside the crosswalk b/c it was blocked. The plow truck blocking the crosswalk started backing up because they realized they were blocking the...

We had a really fun show at union square today. The type 8 in the back of the pair was not working and so they uncoupled it live in front of us. The supervisor explained to everyone that the type 8s do not work in the cold. They were trying all sorts of maneuvers to uncouple them and the...

Just got a long email from the project team, reads a lot like the one I got from the I-90 project team except this one I think I managed to elicit more of an emotional reaction beyond "we need the space". What did it? Well, I said that they "didn't try very hard" and were "wreaking havoc" and...

Also let's not forget the "director of megaprojects" we hired who was supposed to figure this stuff out, and not, I don't know, not do anything