whighlander
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last word on MIT Main Building 4,
crazy dorm tower: not ambiguous FAA
365' (definitely the roof, per other filed reports/multiple points)
"Here, the greatest height reached 365 AGL, making it the highest point of the structure. We are requesting to change the lighting/marking to red lights."
Kendall Square at MIT – Site 4, Buildings E37, E38
Eastgate is also "Family Housing," so its not a typical dorm. You have to be married and/or have kids to live there. $2,600 for a married couple to live in a brand new apartment in the heart of Kendall is still a below market rate, and on-par with or lower than what other universities charge for graduate housing.So here is something kind of appalling. The Eastgate Graduate Student Housing rent prices were around $1,600 per month. They're raising rents in the new graduate student housing building to $2,600 per month (and tearing down Eastgate). I do NOT think this is what Cambridge expected or wanted when it approved MIT's upzoning in exchange for more graduate student housing. Keep in mind MIT only PAYS Its graduate students around $3,000 per month...so that's over 80% of their paychecks.
I don't like to push an agenda here, but if you also think this is appalling, you can sign a petition here: http://chng.it/RkvFkpV8N9
Counterpoint: Nobody asked MIT to build graduate student housing in the heart of Kendall Square. Also, many graduate students are international students with rules stating that their spouses cannot work in the U.S., thus making it outright unaffordable.Eastgate is also "Family Housing," so its not a typical dorm. You have to be married and/or have kids to live there. $2,600 for a married couple to live in a brand new apartment in the heart of Kendall is still a below market rate, and on-par with or lower than what other universities charge for graduate housing.
$1,600 is an outright steal.
$2,600 for a married couple to live in a brand new apartment in the heart of Kendall is still a below market rate.....
Right, and it's not like this is open to the public, it is ONLY open to students making $3,200 at best. This is only going to be affordable to people with partners earning a decent income or students with rich daddies.Yes, but as students they are also making a below market salary! Not earning the big bucks until after they get that degree.
Counterpoint: Nobody asked MIT to build graduate student housing in the heart of Kendall Square. Also, many graduate students are international students with rules stating that their spouses cannot work in the U.S., thus making it outright unaffordable.
MIT is not-for-profit with a 17 billion endowment and 3.5 bil operating revenue. Should MIT be trying to make profit off the backs of its most vulnerable? Because that is what this looks like.
I think people would have been satisfied if they built that graduate student housing elsewhere on campus at the same time as the KSI, if they knew the rents would be priced like this.Uh... yeah they did. That was literally the number one demand for the KSI. From these same petition-signers.
I doubt they're trying to make a profit - just pay off construction costs - but I agree in principle. The prices MIT sets for Eastgate should be the same ones it carries forward, since it's MIT that determines how much these folks have to spend. There's nothing market-driven about this situation.